Richard Paul Evans Quotes

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.

Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.

If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose, If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you, If you don't get drunk on my kiss, If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done. Let's not drag this on, Consider me gone.

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly

Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back. I think I'm over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn't felt love before.