Cecelia Ahern citations

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

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

“That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.”

“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.”