Richard Paul Evans Quotes

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the way Tim looked at her. She remembered her mom's word. "I saw the way he looked at you...he adores you." Maybe that was it. Tim looked at her on a surface level. He smiled and seemed happy to see her. But When Cody looked at her, there were no layers left, nothing her didn't reveal, nothing he couldn't see. He didn't really look at her so much as he looked into her. To the deepest, most real places in her heart and soul.

I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.