Cecelia Ahern Quotes page 2

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

Source: If You Could See Me Now

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

Source: Love, Rosie

“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.”

Source: Where Rainbows End

“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.”

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“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.”

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“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.”

Source: P.S. I Love You

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Variant: At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can
do: 1) break down, lose hope, and refuse to go on while lying facedown on the ground
banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2) laugh.
Source: A Place Called Here

“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.”

Source: How to Fall in Love

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

Source: P.S. I Love You

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

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“Empty words almost echo within themselves”

Source: Love, Rosie

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

“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.”

Source: The Gift

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

“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.”

Source: How to Fall in Love

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

Source: The Time of My Life

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

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

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

Source: Love, Rosie

“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.”

Source: How to Fall in Love

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

Source: The Gift

“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.”

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Variant: 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. I want us to be best friends forever
Source: Love, Rosie

“People come and go.”

Variant: That's what life is about: People come and go.
Source: Love, Rosie

“Life is hard, so what?”

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

Source: Love, Rosie

“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.”

Source: One Hundred Names