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“A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul.” (The Gift Quotes)
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“Enough time leaves us warm; when our time is gone, it leaves us cold”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.” (The Gift Quotes)
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“One man’s lesson is another man’s tale, but often, a man’s tale can be another’s lesson.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“The fear was there; it was there all the time, but it was merely disguised as something else for others to see.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“The next best thing never last for too long”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.” (The Gift Quotes)
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“Time can’t be given. But it can be shared.”
Cecelia Ahern
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
The Gift
“We’re not in this life just to work, we’re in it to live.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
“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.”
Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
