Richard Paul Evans (born October 11, 1962) is an American author, best known for writing The Christmas Box and, more recently, the Michael Vey series.
. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.
The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.
I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.
Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.
. . . for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.
Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.
We can only lose what we have first claimed.