“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Christmas Box
“Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life. ”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Christmas Box
“The human life cycle no less than evolves around the box; from the open-topped box called a bassinet, to the pine box we call a coffin, the box is our past and, just as assuredly, our future. It should not surprise us then that the lowly box plays such a significant role in the first Christmas story. For Christmas began in a humble, hay-filled box of splintered wood. The Magi, wise men who had traveled far to see the infant king, laid treasure-filled boxes at the feet of that holy child. And in the end, when He had ransomed our sins with His blood, the Lord of Christmas was laid down in a box of stone. How fitting that each Christmas season brightly wrapped boxes skirt the pine boughs of Christmas trees around the world. ”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Christmas Box
“They say that time heals all wounds. But even as wounds heal they leave scars, token reminders of the pain.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Christmas Box
“The first gift of Christmas was love. A parent's love. Pure as the first snows of Christmas. For God so loved His children that He sent His son, that someday we might return to Him.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Christmas Box
Richard Paul Evans
Born place: in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States
Born date October 11, 1962
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“What grieves me is that I am constantly forgetting to recognize God’s hand in the little, everyday trials of life, and instead of receiving them as from Him, find fault with the instruments by which He sends them.”
― Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, quote from Stepping Heavenward
“People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up, because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Outpost
“I never want to love someone like that, not even Matt, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn’t be able to survive if he left me.”
― Jean Kwok, quote from Girl in Translation
“You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't really mean. It's OK.'
'I'll kill you both.'
'Hurtful things said in the heat of the moment. We're not going to hold it against you, Bison. We're all friends here.'
Valkyrie nodded. 'We love you Bison.'
'We do,' Skulduggery agreed. 'You're our favourite Necromancer. You're the cuddly one.'
'Shut up,' Dragonclaw said. 'Both of you just shut up.”
― Derek Landy, quote from Death Bringer
“Yes, peasants,” he repeated slowly. “The lowliest of the low among humans.” Then he enunciated, “Exceedingly backward and vulgar hillbillies.”
“Been called worse, mister.” At his raised brows, she exhaled impatiently. “Bootlegger, moonshiner, Elly May Clampett, mountain mama, redneck, backwoods Bessie, hick, trailer trash, yokel, and, more recently, death-row con.”
“No references to mining? I’m disappointed.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Lothaire
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