“I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Grace
“It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Grace
“It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Grace
“Snow is falling outside and all is peaceful and still. In such moments it is possible to believe that the world could still be good.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Grace
“So I've been thinking. Do you believe there's a hell?"
"Sure. Doesn't everybody?"
"Well, what if this is hell, but we just don't know it?"
"That's crazy. Hell is like lakes of fire, and there are devils with horns and pitchforks. here's none of those around here."
"But what if hell's not really like that?" Grace asked.
"Everyone says it's that way," I said.
"I don't think Jesus every talked about fire and brimstone."
"Then why do they teach us that at church?"
"To scare us."
"Why would they want to scare us?"
"I don't know. I just don't think God wants us to do good things because we're scared. I think he wants us to do good things because we're good.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Grace
Richard Paul Evans
Born place: in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States
Born date October 11, 1962
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“I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.”
― Adam Silvera, quote from History Is All You Left Me
“La poveretta pensava poi anche ch’egli poteva bene impedire che si facesse monaca; ma lì finiva la sua autorità sopra di lei, e la sua protezione. Partito che fosse, essa rimarrebbe sola col principe. E qualunque cosa avesse poi a patire in quella casa il buon prete non n’avrebbe saputo nulla, o sapendolo, con tutta la sua buona intenzione, non avrebbe potuto far altro che aver compassione di lei, quella compassione tranquilla e misurata che, in generale, s’accorda, come per cortesia,a chi abbia dato cagione o pretesto al male che gli fanno.”
― Alessandro Manzoni, quote from The Betrothed
“…courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration…”
― Louisa May Alcott, quote from Jo's Boys
“...a much younger woman, one of those round-faced, tiny-featured women who were touted as beauties though they were not in fact particularly beautiful. They were simply the daughters of wealthy families powerful enough to demand that the concept of beauty be expanded to include them.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“La flatterie n'émane jamais des grandes âmes, elle est l'apanage
des petits esprits qui réussissent à se rapetisser encore pour mieux
entrer dans la sphère vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils
gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un intérêt.”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from Eugénie Grandet
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