by Richard Paul Evans
(Simon and Schuster, 2012)
Most people don’t know why they buy the things they buy.
Page 8.
I wasn’t so much in love as love was in me.
Page 161.
Relationships, by nature, require trust, and trust cannot grow in the fog of secrecy.
Page 164.
Sometimes when people leave a belief system, they go to the opposite extreme.
Page 170.
Career advancement is unlikely when you’re invisible.
Page 216.
Caution never breeds greatness. Caution is the birthplace of mediocrity.
Page 221.
Even a broken heart can still hold love.
Page 235.
To have felt her love, even for the short time I had it, was better than to not know that such love existed.
Page 236.
Ultimately, their hearts would determine their fates.
Page 237.
Oftentimes it’s the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.
Page 259.
It was so easy falling in love with her. Why couldn’t letting her go be just as easy?
Page 259.
I didn’t know a heart could break twice.
Page 261.
Adversity is not a detour. It is part of the path.
Page 264.
Everyone who has walked this earth is a victim of injustice. Everyone.
Page 265.
Do not be too quick to denounce your sufferings.
Page 265.
We understand our lives looking backward, but we must live them forward.
Page 265.