The Mistletoe Inn Quotes

“Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn’t work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It’s like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won’t work. That’s why so many people get lost.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“I once heard a writer say, 'It's easy to write a novel, you just slit your wrist and let it bleed on the pages.' She was right...Sophocles and Freud believed that we are defined by our fears. There's a lot of truth to that. When you share your greatest fears, your vulnerability, we bond in that honesty. We connect with each other and we don't feel so alone. And that's what books are really about. Connecting.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig.
~Zeke”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness—sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another’s well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“There are people whom we’ve never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life. Kimberly Rossi’s Diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as “the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you’d look forward to the trip.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn’t come from desire—at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness—sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another’s well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It’s up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“... we try to ease our pain with anger. But anger isn't strength. It only masks itself as strength. It's weakness. At its core, it's fear. Fear of facing what might be truth”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“They say love is blind, but it’s not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault—it just sees beyond it as well. Kimberly Rossi’s Diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault, it just sees beyond it as well.
~Kimberly Rossi's Diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Without dreams, life is a desert.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another’s well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“All around the lobby were flickering red candles, and the room was filled with a pleasant scent of cinnamon, clove, and pine.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Never trade what you love for what's behind curtain B. Never.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“There have been seasons of my life when rejection rained down. And then there have been typhoons. Kimberly Rossi’s Diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another’s well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“There are people whom we’ve never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“We don’t appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that’s true for love as well.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“The most important think Zeke has taught me about love has nothing to do with books. Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn't come from desire - at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness - sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn

“Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn