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Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist whose work was first published in 2004. Ahern was born and grew up in Dublin. She is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as films and she has created several TV series.

She and her books have won numerous awards, including the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction for The Year I Met You.She has published several novels and contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies. Ahern also created and produced the ABC comedy Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate.

She is a face of Littlewoods Ireland.

✵ 30. September 1981  •  Other names Cecilia Ahern
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Cecelia Ahern Quotes

“So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate cake left over from yesterday so I came back up for air. Some things are worth living for.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

“Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Where Rainbows End

“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: The Time of My Life

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: P.S. I Love You

“It’s not easy remembering the good times.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: How to Fall in Love

“Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: One Hundred Names

“Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: The Time of My Life

“Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words. In that silence, she had peace and clarity. Except during the night, when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“I don't care if my love is requited or not, because being with you and the very thought of you makes me happy. The point I'm trying to make is that you are loved because I love you, Adam. Please, don't do it. Please, don't jump because I need you.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: How to Fall in Love

“I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: P.S. I Love You

“I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”

Cecelia Ahern book PS, I Love You

Variant: We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.
Source: PS, I Love You

“well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

“Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves
~Gabe”

Cecelia Ahern

“I'm a million different things every day of the week.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: P.S. I Love You

“Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

Cecelia Ahern

Variant: Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!
Source: P.S. I Love You

“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

Source: One Hundred Names

“the important thing is not what we (look) like, but the role we play in our best friend's life.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: One Hundred Names

“they worry about my sanity i join with them on that”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

“… you are loved because I love you.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: How to Fall in Love

“You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the
perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy
little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the
titles.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

“Memories were fine, but you couldn't touch them. They were never exactly as the moment had been, & they faded w/ time”

Cecelia Ahern

Variant: Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.

“Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to
be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really
don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: Perfect

“The Brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: How to Fall in Love

“Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.”

Cecelia Ahern

“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”

Cecelia Ahern

Source: Flawed