The Broken Road Quotes

“There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“It's not always wrong to quit. We should never hold onto a mistake just because we spent a lot of time making it.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“I work at a retirement home. I'm a CNA.”
“What's that?”
“It stands for Certified Nursing Assistant.”
“That sounds important,” I said.
She laughed. “If changing old people's diapers is important.”
I thought for a moment, then said, “It is for the old people.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“Their relationship was as one-sided as a pizza.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. —CHARLES JAMES’S DIARY”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“but a good writer knows when to shut up and listen.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“The relationship between a patient and a counselor is a peculiar thing. I find myself wanting to act more sane to win her approval.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“Prologue When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“We all swim deep in the river of our ancestry.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road