Cecelia Ahern Quotes

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“Rosie: What the hell was that silence?
Steph: It sounds like something I’d like. It sounded nice.
Rosie: It was.”

“We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.”

“Note to self:
Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.”

“Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.”

“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.”

“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.”

“At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do:
1.) break down, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.”

“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.”

“And nobody had told them that they were short on time.”

“For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.”

“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.”

“Empty words almost echo within themselves”

“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”

“Close your eyes and stare into the dark.”

“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 for ever.”

“Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.”

“sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.”

“Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.”

“Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?”

“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.”

“Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.”

“I don’t want to be
one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so
influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant
memory.”

“People come and go.”

“Life is hard, so what?”

“Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.”

“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.”

“Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught
you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody
knows what’s going on”

“Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers”

“Things won't change unless you change you.”

“We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.”

“They say a story loses something with each telling.”

“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.”

“You always had me. I always had you.”

“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.”

“I missed her, the idea of her.”

“You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.'
'And yet it is still extremely funny.”

“People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."

"Shouldn't the storyteller believe it."

"The storyteller should tell it.”

“What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.”

“Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.”

“To hell with you all, I DO believe”

“You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”

“what a luxury it was for people to be
able to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted.”

“Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.”

“You were my wonderfully bespoke original guide to happiness.”

“It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.”

“.. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.”