Cecelia Ahern Quotes

“Seeming and being are not one and the same.”

“I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.”

“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars”

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”

“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”

“Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you… and remember, shoot for the moon.”

“Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.”

“are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was the life and she was the soul of every party.”

“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”

“Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.”

“Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.”

“Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.”

“sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.”

“Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.”

“… God leads you to it and takes you through it.”

“Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.”

“Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.”

“Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, 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.”

“When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.”

“To new beginnings. To the pursuit of… somethingness.”

“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”

“I think I wished for you all of my life.”

“Time cant be given. But it can be shared.”

“people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell”

“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.”

“Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice
we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too
stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we
got it all wrong.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.”

“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.”

“Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.”

“what you don't know, you don't miss”

“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”

“Your heart can break at any age.”

“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 pissed me off.”

“What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?”

“Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem”

“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”

“She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”

“Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.”

“Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.
And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”

“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?”

“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.”

“If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”

“You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.”

“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out.
But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.”

“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.”

“So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.”

“Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.”

“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.”

“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning. Time can't be given. But it can be shared”

“You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. […] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.”

“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”

“Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there…”

“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.”

“We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.”