Cecelia Ahern Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

“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’.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”

“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.”

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

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

“… you are loved because I love you.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”