Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, known for her works like PS, I Love You; Where Rainbows End; and If You Could See Me Now. Born in Dublin, Ahern is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as major motion films. (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
“A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul.”
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The Gift
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
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The Gift
“A sunflower for my sunflower. To brighten the dark October days you hate so much. Plant some more, and be safe in the knowledge a warm and bright summer awaits.”
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P.S. I Love You
“A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you’re sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess – it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”
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Perfect
“After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won’t even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you forever.”
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Love, Rosie
“Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.”
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Love, Rosie
“All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“All thoughts about myself now begin with perhaps .. because I’m having to think about myself in ways I never did before and I’m not sure if I’m right in my thinking about these things.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Year I Met You
“All women speak man, they were raised bilingual. No men in this room speak woman. Surveys seem to suggest that women believe it should work both ways.”
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Roar
“Always just pleasant. Never overexcited. Never, in fact, excited at all. Just pleasant, which is simply another word for nice.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“And sometimes when you witness a miracle it makes you believe that anything is possible.”
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How to Fall in Love
“And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don’t go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I’d grown up with an elephant in every room. It was practically our family pet.” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
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The Book of Tomorrow
“And then one good thing happened that day, the first good thing, the only good thing, but sometimes you only ever need one good thing.”
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How to Fall in Love
“And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.”
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Perfect
“And there, on a high branch, she often remembered her favorite Hanokoma variety, so difficult to care for, but bearing such sweet fruits. And how I felt that the difficulties and failures that one has to overcome along the way give success a special sweetness.”
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Roar
“And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn’t make a good foundation for marriage.”
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How to Fall in Love
“Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It’s the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practice”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“Appreciating your loved ones,” Raphie said, a little embarrassed at first. “Acknowledging all the special people in your life. Concentrating on what’s important.”
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The Gift
“Art is like a light to me, illuminating the darkest corners of everything.”
Cecelia Ahern
Flawed
“As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there’s dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“As women, we dress to please ourselves, to hide our imperfections, to accentuate our best features. Our clothing is an extension of who we are, a reflection of what we are thinking and feeling.”
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Perfect
“At least he will try. She can. She can do it. Because she wants it that way and because it’s necessary. Because this is her life, she has no other, and she will live it to the fullest. She will enjoy every moment. She will work, love her family, without looking for excuses or explanations.”
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Roar
“At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can do:
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1. Breakdown, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying on the facedown on the ground banging your fist and kicking your legs.
2. Laugh”
A Place Called Here
“At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“Believe me, when you die, it’s everybody else’s but your problem”
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The Gift
“But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else’s life. Sometimes I’ll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they’re not alone, that I’m not alone, that it’s ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I’m plunged back into reality.” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
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Flawed
“But in reality the old man did not leave an empty life, because it was filled to the brim with the ghost of his past.”
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Girl in the Mirror
“But more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we’re going backward when we’re actually moving forward.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“But this is what happens when you come apart, the secret bits you knew about each other dissolve into nothing.”
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Freckles
“But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.”
Cecelia Ahern
How to Fall in Love
“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”
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The Time of My Life
“But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Year I Met You
“Childbirth is nothing compared to exercise, and Gary was a big baby. This is what they should do to prisoners of war when they’re trying to interrogate them.”
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Love, Rosie
“Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane”
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Love, Rosie
“Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.”
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One Hundred Names
“Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It’s a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.”
Cecelia Ahern
Flawed
“Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“Despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realized that my hour and someone else’s hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way; we cannot think of it in the same way.” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
Cecelia Ahern
The Year I Met You
“Do you know the last time I could go and sit quietly in a bar like that? She shook her head. – That’s it: never! It is believed that women do not go to bars. And if they do, they are alcoholics or those who are looking for sex or who walk out of loneliness and are looking for company so that some idiot can sit down and start chatting about nothing out of politeness. I really needed it when I came to sit quietly alone and relax! When you are a man, no one forces himself into your company if you don’t want it. What do you think? “Melissa grinned and took a sip of beer.”
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Roar
“Doesn’t it strike you that the one person I save every day is a person who doesn’t even want to live? Doesn’t it make you feel completely redundant?”
Cecelia Ahern
The Marble Collector
“Don’t ever take it for granted when people look into you’re eyes… You’ve no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it is an angry glare, because it’s when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“Don’t be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you…and remember, shoot for the moon.”
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P.S. I Love You
“Don’t mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.”
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P.S. I Love You
“Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.”
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The Time of My Life
“Each second is rather torturous, as though it will never move on, and as though it will never get any easier, and yet when I look back on it, look where we are. Two weeks on. And I’m doing it. And I still believe I simply cannot.”
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One Hundred Names
“Empty words almost echo within themselves.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“Enough time leaves us warm; when our time is gone, it leaves us cold”
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The Gift
“Even when practically invisible, she was still fighting to be seen.”
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Roar
“Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.”
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One Hundred Names
“Every small things grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But it that is making you miserable then leave and find something else that brings you the happiness you deserve to feel.
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Just listen to what your heart is saying and go with your gut instinct and it will lead you the right way.
Other people don’t have all the answers to the questions. Sometimes, we’re all just as confused as you are.”
Love, Rosie
“Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves.”
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A Place Called Here
“Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.”
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A Place Called Here
“Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you forever.”
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Love, Rosie
“Explaining one’s recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.”
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Love, Rosie
“Father and I have the best relationship. Sometimes our thoughts are so similar it’s almost as if we’re the same person. When people see us they are blown away by our bond, by the respect he holds for me, by the admiration I hold for him.”
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The Time of My Life
“Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we’re gone.”
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P.S. I Love You
“Freedom of speech isn’t something you can mess with journalists. You try to silence them, they’ll shout even louder.”
Cecelia Ahern
Flawed
“Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?”
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How to Fall in Love
“He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.”
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A Place Called Here
“He wanted to prove to the world that he was able to achieve something, that he could stand out from the crowd even when he felt the world was telling him he couldn’t.”
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One Hundred Names
“He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you’re beautiful exactly the way are now.”
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One Hundred Names
“He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn’t know or didn’t care that you were in the room and if they ever did acknowledge your existence it was bizarrely score one to you, and twenty years later they’d tell you they’d always had a crush on you but never had the courage to say anything and you’d tell them, What? I didn’t even think you liked me? and they’d say, Are you crazy? I just never knew what to say!”
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The Time of My Life
“He was too detached from the family to start trying in one evening to check himself into a place where there was currently no vacancy.”
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The Gift
“Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.”
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P.S. I Love You
“Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words. In that silence, she had peace and clarity. Except during the night, when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.”
Cecelia Ahern
If You Could See Me Now
“Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it’s a maybe. A ‘maybe someday things won’t always be this shit.’ And that ‘maybe’ immediately makes the shittiness better.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“How can a place be a home if no one wants you there? This is not a home.”
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Lyrebird
“How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there’s no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn’t any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say.” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
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The Time of My Life
“How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.”
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P.S. I Love You
“Humans possess insatiable longings for wealth, status, and power, but are hungry, most of all, for love.”
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Postscript
“I am hungry for something to do, somewhere to go.”
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The Year I Met You
“I am just a chapter in your life, there will be many more.”
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Postscript
“I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do.”
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One Hundred Names
“I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.”
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A Place Called Here
“I cannot get through this day. But I did. Somehow. And then that day was over and I was facing the night and I said to myself, I cannot face this night. But I did. Somehow”
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One Hundred Names
“I didn’t know what else to do. I don’t have anywhere else to go, I can’t go back. I’m trying to move forward all the time but I’m grasping at everything and can’t catch on to anything.”
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Lyrebird
“I don’t believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.”
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Perfect
“I don’t care if my love is requited or not, because being with you and the very thought of you makes me happy. The point I’m trying to make is that you are loved because I love you, Adam. Please, don’t do it. Please, don’t jump because I need you.”
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How to Fall in Love
“I don’t know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from myself, from absolute despair. Maybe he does know and that’s exactly what he was doing. He was like an angel who came into my life with his bus of books at exactly the right time, who whisked me away from a terrible place to a faraway land.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Book of Tomorrow
“I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.”
Cecelia Ahern
If You Could See Me Now
“I find that, usually, answers present themselves. They are not hidden under rocks or camouflaged among trees. Answers are right there, in front of our eyes. But if you haven’t cause to look, then of course you will probably never find them.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“I found a new and surprising strength inside of me, I found it at the bottom of a dark and lonely place, but I found it. And unfortunately, that’s where we find most of life’s treasures. After digging, toiling in the darkness and dire, we finally hit something concrete. I learned that rock bottom can actually be a springboard.”
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Postscript
“I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen. That makes me sound like a believer and I’m not necessarily that either. I’ll phrase it better: I just accept things that happen. All things.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Time of My Life
“I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen”
Cecelia Ahern
The Book of Tomorrow
“I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.”
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The Time of My Life
“I hate goodbyes, but hating them is never a justification to stay.”
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Postscript
“I have studied and written about this extensively; as women age, they are written out of the world, no longer visible on television or film, in fashion magazines, and only ever on daytime TV to advertise the breakdown of bodily functions and ailments, or promote potions and lotions to help battle ageing as though it were something that must be fought. Sound familiar?”
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Roar
“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”
Cecelia Ahern
Flawed
“I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“I lost something that I thought defined me and I felt like a shell of a person. Instead of trying to get it back, I had to figure out why I couldn’t be whole all by myself.”
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The Year I Met You
“I loved him, you know, but I have a theory about love. I think that, however good it is, some love isn’t meant to be forever.”
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How to Fall in Love
“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“I must stop feeling so deeply but I must not be numb; I must move on but I must not forget; I must be happy but not reject sadness; I must embrace but not cling; I must deal with but not dwell on; I must confront but not attack; I must eliminate but not annihilate; I must be gentle with myself but I must be strong.”
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Postscript
“I never believed in God. Not even at school when my priestly teacher drummed the fear and the guilt into us. I believed that he believed it, all right, but I thought he was mad. Delusional. I thought if somebody had to force you that much to believe in something then it wasn’t worth believing, that it wasn’t natural, you know?”
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One Hundred Names
“I realised that my hour and someone else’s hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way, we cannot think of it in the same way.”
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The Year I Met You
“I said at the beginning of this story that this was about a person who finds out who they are. About a person who is unravelled and their core is revealed to all that count. And that all that count are revealed to them. You thought I was talking about Lou Suffern, didn’t you? Wrong. I was talking about us all.”
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The Gift
“I should have been afraid, walking through a mountainside in the dark by myself. Instead I felt safe, surrounded by the songs of birds, engulfed by the scents of sweet moss and pine, and cocooned in a mist that contained a little bit of magic.”
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A Place Called Here
“I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“I was convinced that you couldn’t replace what was lost. I insisted on things having to be found.”
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A Place Called Here
“I’m trying to make some sense out of the phrase “Everything happens for a reason,” and I think I’ve figured out what the reason is—to piss me off.”
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Love, Rosie
“I’ve come a long way. But I’ve a distance to go. My dream? My dream is to soar happily into my future.”
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Lyrebird
“I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.”
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Love, Rosie
“I’ve learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way.”
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Flawed
“If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.”
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The Gift
“If you have a dream, you want to at least be able to try to achieve it in some way. Something that is seemingly beyond your grasp but that you know that with a bit of hard work you could possibly achieve.” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
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The Time of My Life
“If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It’s your life, you’re the one who dies, you’re the one who loses it.”
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The Year I Met You
“If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“If you think I’m going to let you take over my life, you’re wrong.”
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Girl in the Mirror
“If you want to do something, you have to do it now. If you want to say something, you have to say it now. And more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It’s your life, you’re the one who dies, you’re the one who loses it.”
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The Year I Met You
“Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”
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Flawed
“I’m never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I’m OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.”
Cecelia Ahern
Thanks for the Memories
“I’m not one of those people who live and breathes their job, I don’t take it so seriously that I want to stay longer than I am paid for or want to socialize with people I spend most of my waking hours with and would never choose to say more than two words to in the real world.”
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The Time of My Life
“In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one’s wings. First step is to identify the shit.”
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The Year I Met You
“In this place, fun and laughing makes them angry. We are not here to be leaders, we are here to serve.”
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The Marble Collector
“It can take a lifetime to build up a friendship- it can take a second to make an enemy.”
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Perfect
“It is time of which we do not have enough; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.”
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The Gift
“It is what he regrets, what beats him up inside that makes him relive it over and over a thousand times a day.”
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Girl in the Mirror
“It occurs to me how close happiness and sadness are. So closely knitted together. Such a thin line, a thread-like divide that in the midst of emotions, it trembles, blurring the territory of exact opposites … how quickly a moment of love was snapped away to a moment of hate … Of how love and war stand upon the very same foundations. How, in my darkest moments, my most fearful times, when faced, became my bravest. When feeling at your weakest you end up showing more strength, when at your lowest are suddenly lifted above higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, the opposites, and how we can be altered. Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence. … How similar emotions are.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“It’s difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it’s too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late.”
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A Place Called Here
“It’s not easy remembering the good times.”
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How to Fall in Love
“It’s not his job to mind her, or is it? Perhaps that’s a job he’s given himself, placing himself in a position of importance for his own ego.”
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Lyrebird
“It’s funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“I’ve come to believe that at different times our lives we are drawn to certain people for various reasons, mainly because that version of ourselves is connected to that version of them at that particular time. If you stick at it, work at it, you can grow in different directions together. Sometimes you get pulled apart, but I believe there is the right person, the one, for all the different versions of yourself. Gabriel and I lived in the now. Gerry and I aimed for forever. We got a fraction of forever. And an enjoyable now and a fraction of forever is always better than doing nothing.”
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Postscript
“I’ve learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.”
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The Year I Met You
“Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.”
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One Hundred Names
“Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants”
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Flawed
“Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.”
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The Time of My Life
“Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive. And though it may be human nature to dwell, like many natural things it’s senseless, senseless to allow a single thought to inhabit a mind because thoughts are like guests or fair-weather friends. As soon as they arrive, they can leave, and even the ones that take a long time to emerge fully can disappear in an instant. Moments are precious; sometimes they linger and other times they’re fleeting, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.”
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How to Fall in Love
“Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts”
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Love, Rosie
“Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life every day, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I’m so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I’ll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life” He whispered. “But now it is time for us to part.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.”
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One Hundred Names
“Love can soften people, I believe that. But in me, now, love riles up an anger, a red-hot rage that crawls on my skin, seeps into my blood and brings out the worst in me. That’s why everyone I love is better off loving me from afar.”
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One Hundred Names
“Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.”
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A Place Called Here
“Maybe it’s wrong to deprive people of that experience, this experience of you I’m having. Maybe I didn’t want to share you.”
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Lyrebird
“Maybe the strongest fighters are the nurturers because they’re connected to something deep in their core, they’ve got something to fight for, they’ve got something worth saving.”
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Perfect
“Moments are precious; sometimes they linger and other times they’re fleeting, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change your mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.”
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How to Fall in Love
“Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.”
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P.S. I Love You
“My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn’t allowed to do.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“My mother says that I have a knack for remembering what others forget. Sometimes it’s a curse; nobody likes it when there’s somebody to remember what they’ve tried so hard to bury.”
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The Marble Collector
“Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man’s home.”
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Flawed
“Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.”
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One Hundred Names
“Nobody else around me seems to be looking around and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I’m the only person who is confused and concerned about the choices I’ve made and where I’m headed? Everywhere I look, I see people just getting on with it.”
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Love, Rosie
“Nobody’s life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn’t be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”
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P.S. I Love You
“Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“Nothing can ever be the same when all the time we’re changing.”
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Freckles
“Nothing is never nothing. It’s always something.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“Often, when I’m searching for something, the only way I can find anything is to acknowledge out loud what it is, because I can’t see it unless I fully register and envision in my mind what it is I’m looking for.”
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The Year I Met You
“One man’s lesson is another man’s tale, but often, a man’s tale can be another’s lesson.”
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The Gift
“Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
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Love, Rosie
“Our thoughts are ever-changing, because we put them there. Once you grasp the difference between suicidal thoughts and your feelings, you will start to understand your emotions. You can separate your suicidal thoughts from your feelings.”
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How to Fall in Love
“Our thoughts are ever-changing, because we put them there.”
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How to Fall in Love
“Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.”
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The Gift
“People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time.”
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Love, Rosie
“People can surprise you when you suffer through grief. It’s not true that you discover who your friends are, but it’s true to say that their characters are revealed.”
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Postscript
“People didn’t always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.”
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One Hundred Names
“People don’t know that they do that to people when they do the things they shouldn’t. Hurtful things are roots, they spread ,branch out, creep under the surface touching other parts of the lives of those they hurt. It’s never one mistake, it’s never one moment, it becomes a series of moments, each moment growing roots and spurting in different directions. And over time, they become muddled like an old twisted tree, strangling itself and tying itself up in knots.”
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The Marble Collector
“People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don’t really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don’t have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn’t mean concentrating on what you don’t have, it’s positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“People tell stories, and it’s up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It’s not the job of the storyteller.”
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The Gift
“People who believe that they are not interesting, usually are the most interesting of all.”
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One Hundred Names
“People who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.”
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The Gift
“People who say it’s a long story, mean it’s a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn’t be bothered to tell”
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Love, Rosie
“People’s name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.”
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Lyrebird
“Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“Professor Montgomery smiles that beautiful smile. ‘I don’t place the blame solely on you. You can share it with society. I blame the adulation and sexualization of young women. I blame the focus on beauty and appearance, the pressure to conform to others’ expectations in a way that men are not required to.”
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Roar
“Remember our wonderful memories, but please don’t be afraid to make some more”
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P.S. I Love You
“She also wants the freedom to be able to act as she deems appropriate, without fearing or dreading the feedback, the sensing the disapproval and disappointment. Of always letting him down. Of having to check herself. She doesn’t want any more cold air between them, but mostly she doesn’t like to have to second-guess herself at a job that she knows she’s more than capable of doing.”
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Lyrebird
“She couldn’t remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”
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P.S. I Love You
“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it’s what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”
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P.S. I Love You
“She longs for him to be here, but knows it was she who walked away from him. It’s her fault he’s not here.”
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Lyrebird
“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”
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P.S. I Love You
“She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.”
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P.S. I Love You
“She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“She told me that to seek the truth is not necessarily to go on a mission all guns blazing in order to reveal a lie, neither is it to be particularly ground-breaking – it is simply to get to the heart of what is real.”
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One Hundred Names
“She was a woman who made mistakes, who sometimes cried on a Monday morning or at night alone in bed. She was a woman who often became bored with her life and found it hard to get up for work in the morning. She was a woman who more often than not had a bad hair day, who looked in the mirror and wondered why she couldn’t just drag herself to the gym more often; she was a woman who sometimes questioned what reason had she to live on this planet. She was a woman who sometimes just got things wrong.
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On the other hand, she was a women with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories. Whether it happened in ten months or ten years, Holly would obey Gerry’s final message. Whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart and follow where it led.
In the meantime, she would just live.”
P.S. I Love You
“She wished all her memories could be of the good times, but the bad times kept coming back to haunt her.”
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P.S. I Love You
“She’d learned that the more people there were, the lonelier she felt.”
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Roar
“She’d thought that a city of eight million people would be an ideal place to find friendship, love, relationships, start a life. And for a long time she was right, but in recent years she’d learned that the more people there were, the lonelier she felt. Because her loneliness was amplified.”
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Roar
“Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.”
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Postscript
“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars”
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P.S. I Love You
“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“Silent people hold a magic and a knowledge that less contained people lack; that their not saying something means that more important thoughts are going on inside their head. Perhaps their seeming simplicity belies a hidden mosaic of fanciful thoughts.”
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The Year I Met You
“So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do equally with your life, because it’s yours, it’s you, and it’s always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can’t do it.”
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The Time of My Life
“So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.”
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P.S. I Love You
“So many secrets, so many things I didn’t know. What else don’t I know?”
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The Marble Collector
“So that makes time more precious, doesn’t it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you’ll never get them back.”
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The Gift
“Some paints, if applied side by side, look different in our eyes. But the colors themselves do not change, only our perception changes.”
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Roar
“Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time than we hoped for. It’s sad, but it’s life. So you go to this ball, Holly and you embrace the fact that you had someone whom you loved and who loved you back.” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
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P.S. I Love You
“Some people say that you shouldn’t operate from a place of fear,’ Constance went on, ‘but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?”
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One Hundred Names
“Some things are better left the way they are”
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The Marble Collector
“Sometimes I forget why I feel that way, I just have this feeling that something bad has happened to me and affected my life.”
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The Year I Met You
“Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. You would think it would be an innate human instinct but no, i inhale and forget to exhale and so I find my body rigid, all tensed up, heart pounding , chest tight with an anxious head wondering what’s wrong.”
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The Marble Collector
“Sometimes I wonder if love is enough, or if there are levels of love. And sometimes I wonder if he can see me, even when he’s looking right at me.”
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The Marble Collector
“Sometimes it would be easier to be a human if there weren’t other humans.”
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Freckles
“Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You….”
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P.S. I Love You
“Sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers”
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The Time of My Life
“Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core”
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The Gift
“Sometimes you see everything so clearly and other times you can’t even see yourself, but then, isn’t that all of us?”
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Lyrebird
“Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they’ve been looking at you all the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we’re not paying enough attention.
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We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wonder further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it’s easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.”
A Place Called Here
“Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.”
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A Place Called Here
“That’s the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don’t expect them or want them.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“That’s what life is about: People come and go.”
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Love, Rosie
“The brave man isn’t he who doesn’t feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
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How to Fall in Love
“The cold, like the darkness, can become a deceptive comfort you never want to leave.”
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Postscript
“The fear was there; it was there all the time, but it was merely disguised as something else for others to see.”
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The Gift
“The heart knew that something was missing and it was having to work extra hard to make up for it.”
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One Hundred Names
“The hips were the leaders of this conspiracy. So I rang my boss and held the phone to my hips so he could hear them too.”
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Love, Rosie
“The important thing is not what we look like but the role we play in our best friend’s life”
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If You Could See Me Now
“The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.”
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Perfect
“The machine has helped the creator of the machine to survive. No, it hasn’t helped him. It has kept him alive. Gave him reason. A thing he felt his life was deeply lacking in.”
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Girl in the Mirror
“The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn’t like it. She thought she was a better person than this.”
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Lyrebird
“The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“The next best thing never last for too long”
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The Gift
“The same highly unlikely thing never happens to the same person twice.”
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How to Fall in Love
“The sea was a living creature, as unpredictable as a great theater actor: it could be calm and friendly, could welcome its audience with open arms and at the very next moment demonstrate its stormy temper, tossing people around as if it wanted to throw them out , could attack coasts and destroy entire islands. It had a playful side, it liked people, rocked children, tilted air mattresses, unbalanced windsurfers, but also occasionally helped sailors – all with a mischievous giggle.”
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The Gift
“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. ”
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P.S. I Love You
“Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn’t let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.”
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One Hundred Names
“There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.”
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Love, Rosie
“There is a space that people hold for you, within themselves. Every person has a space for every person they met – sometimes the capacity is deep, sometimes it is shallow.”
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Perfect
“There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you’ll make the right decision.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“There is no physical pain in disappearing. Emotionally, it’s another matter.”
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Roar
“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that as as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it’s audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. It had a playful side too, as it enjoyed the crowd, tossed the children about, knocked lilos over, tipped over windsurfers, occasionally gave sailors helping hands; all done with a secret little chuckle”
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The Gift
“There was something about him so pure and untarnished, yet he was powerful and well-versed on life.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.”
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Love, Rosie
“There’s the person you think you should be and there’s the person you really are. I’m not sure who I should be, but I now know who I am. And that, I say, is the perfect place to start again”
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Perfect
“They say a story loses something with each telling. If that is the case, this story has lost nothing, for it’s the first time it’s been told.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“They say you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with,”
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Freckles
“They’re seeing each other for the first time, two complete strangers, unable to take their eyes off each other. It is the moment his life splits; who he was before he met her and who becomes after.”
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Lyrebird
“Things change so quickly. Just when you get used to something, zap! It
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changes. Just when you begin to understand someone, zap! They grow up. The
same is happening with Katie. She changes every day; her face just becomes so
much more grown-up every time I look at her. Sometimes I have to stop pretending
I’m interested in what she’s saying in order to realize that I actually am
interested. We go shopping for clothes together and I take her advice, we eat
out for lunch and giggle over silly things. I just can’t cast my mind back to the
time when my child stopped being a child and became a person.”
Love, Rosie
“Things won’t change unless you change you.”
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How to Fall in Love
“This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time.”
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The Gift
“This is me, trying to make a choice, to make something for myself in the only way that I know how.”
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Lyrebird
“This story is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover themselves with layers and layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside.”
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The Gift
“Time can’t be given. But it can be shared.”
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The Gift
“Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can’t be given. But it can be shared.” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
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The Gift
“Tired from my all-nighter with my friends, I just kept walking, my head bursting with their conversations, the things I had learned-Laura had had to take the morning-after pill-but none were as loud as the conversations I was having with myself in my head. That, I could never switch off. I don’t think I’d ever thought so much, and talked so little, in my life.”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“To borrow means to take and use something belonging to someone else and then eventually return it.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“To look back, to go back, is not to be weak. It is not to reopen wounds. It takes strength, it takes courage. It takes a person who is more in control of who they are to cast a discerning, non-judgmental eye over who they once were.”
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Postscript
“To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn’t”
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Thanks for the Memories
“To new beginnings. To the pursuit of…somethingness.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.”
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Love, Rosie
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”
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P.S. I Love You
“Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”
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The Time of My Life
“Wanting everything that’s mine to actually be mine and not at the mercy of others and their mistakes.”
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The Year I Met You
“We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it’s easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.”
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One Hundred Names
“We are constantly evolving; I suppose I have always known that, I feared stopping, and it is ironic that it was only when I finally stopped that I moved the most. I know now that we never truly stop, our journey is never complete, because we will continue to flourish – just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
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The Year I Met You
“We don’t often remember how we meet, we mostly remember how we part.”
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Postscript
“We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments.”
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Love, Rosie
“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”
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P.S. I Love You
“We need publicity that allows me to talk about the gift of giving, how precious it is, how special it can be, particularly in these times when people are really struggling. It’s not about how expensive something is – as a nation we’ve stopped giving lavish gifts – it’s actually about thinking about what to give someone, how it can lift them when they’re down, how they can feel loved and important and special just by one simple gesture.”
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One Hundred Names
“We want to control our deaths, our goodbye to the world, and if we can’t control is, we can at least control how we leave it behind.”
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Postscript
“Well, I’ll tell you one thing, you can give him all the help in the world, but unless he learns to fend for himself, it’ll be useless.”
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How to Fall in Love
“We’re not in this life just to work, we’re in it to live.”
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The Gift
“Were we lost and unaccounted for, or was this where we truly belonged and our normal lives the original error?”
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A Place Called Here
“What a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted”
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P.S. I Love You
“What has she done, what has she done? She’s cut herself off from people she truly needs. Yet despite the fear of what she’s done, she knows it’s the right thing. The atmosphere in the apartment was toxic. She had to get away from them, and wasn’t it him who was slowly cutting himself off from her?”
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Lyrebird
“What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?”
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The Book of Tomorrow
“What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.’ He shook his head, ‘If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.”
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The Gift
“What is she doing in this world? Where is she going? She knows she has so much further to go than the distance she has come.”
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Lyrebird
“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah, I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”
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Thanks for the Memories
“What we didn’t need to know, we didn’t need to ask. Some people just don’t quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal.”
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If You Could See Me Now
“When a member of the family leaves or dies, it changes the dynamics of a family. People move and shift, take up places they either wanted to have or are forced into roles they never wanted. It happens without anybody noticing, but it’s shifting all the time.”
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The Marble Collector
“When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
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Girl in the Mirror
“When it comes to my memory there are three categories; things I want to forget, things I can’t forget, and things I’d forgot I’d forgotten until I remember them.”
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The Marble Collector
“When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.”
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Flawed
“When you don’t have a next place to go, time slows down enormously.”
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The Year I Met You
“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart when that breaks it s completely silent. You would think as it s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some … Read Moresort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain. If there is a noise it s internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It trashes around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been taken. That s what it looks like and that s what it sounds like a trashing panicking trapped great big beast roaring like a prisoner to its own emotions. But that s the thing about love no one is untouchable.” (Cecelia Ahern Quotes)
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If You Could See Me Now
“When you see something, it can’t be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.”
Cecelia Ahern
Flawed
“Where would we be without tomorrows? What we’d have instead are todays. And if that was the case, with you, I’d hope for the longest day for today. I’d fill today with you, doing everything I’ve ever loved. I’d laugh, I’d talk, I’d listen and learn, I’d love, I’d love, I’d love. I’d make every day today and spend them all with you, and I’d never worry about tomorrow, when I wouldn’t be with you. And when that dreaded tomorrow comes for us, please know that I didn’t want to leave you, or be left behind, that every single moment spent with you were the best times in my life.”
Cecelia Ahern
How to Fall in Love
“While you were trying to make Maria fall in love with me, and make me fall in love with life, I fell in love with you.”
Cecelia Ahern
How to Fall in Love
“Why can’t people just be really good at something? Why do they have to be the best at something?”
Cecelia Ahern
Lyrebird
“Why did I walk away from something that was perfect?” They ask me all the time. But I didn’t. Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road. Stuff I didn’t care about, so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Time of My Life
“Why don’t you run away and leave everybody else to clean up the mess? Then you can get on your high horse as usual and blame everybody but yourself.”
Cecelia Ahern
Lyrebird
“With a trained eye, she looks up – because on those high branches there are always the ripest berries. And she will get there.”
Cecelia Ahern
Roar
“Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. As humans we are the epitome of life; in life there is always balance. Life and death,male and female, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, win and lose, love and hate. Lost and found.”
Cecelia Ahern
A Place Called Here
“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Book of Tomorrow
“You are a circus act all of your own and I cannot help but be your audience.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Year I Met You
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
Cecelia Ahern
Freckles
“You can cut down a tree, but you can’t destroy what it grew from and all the life that came from it.”
Cecelia Ahern
Freckles
“You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.”
Cecelia Ahern
Love, Rosie
“You can’t hold on to all things forever, no matter how hard you grip them.”
Cecelia Ahern
A Place Called Here
“You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.”
Cecelia Ahern
Love, Rosie
“You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.”
Cecelia Ahern
P.S. I Love You
“You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn’t turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“You may have gotten here just like me, but we are different. “I didn’t want to come here,” the woman replies. “I just enjoyed what I was doing and did my job very well.” You, on the other hand, did nothing but strive to get here. Now that I’m here, I can continue my work. Well, what are you going to do?”
Cecelia Ahern
Roar
“You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Book of Tomorrow
“You showed me that doing simple things are all you need as long as you’re doing them with someone who wants to be with you.”
Cecelia Ahern
How to Fall in Love
“You were my wonderfully bespoke original guide to happiness.”
Cecelia Ahern
How to Fall in Love
“You were the only person who truly told me in that interview that you weren’t afraid to fly, that in fact you were afraid that you wouldn’t.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
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