The Sunflower Quotes

“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“Love is never convenient-and rarely painless”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“I don't want to go to Peru."
How do you know? You've never been there."
I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“American culture is a curious thing. We fret over a sport star’s twisted ankle or the ill-fated marriage of celebrities, yet lose no sleep over a hundred million children living in the streets.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“As much as I have schemed and planned to the contrary, the most central experinces of my life have all been accidents.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“Днес чух една американска тийнейджърка да казва, че е също толкова ощетена, колкото и нашите деца, защото родителите й можели да й купят само стара кола. Няма по бедни от онези, които не осъзнават изобилието на своя живот.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower