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“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.” (One Hundred Names Quotes)
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
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.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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?” (One Hundred Names Quotes)
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.”
Cecelia Ahern
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.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“People didn’t always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“People who believe that they are not interesting, usually are the most interesting of all.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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.” (One Hundred Names Quotes)
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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?”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“The heart knew that something was missing and it was having to work extra hard to make up for it.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
One Hundred Names
“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 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
