Cecelia Ahern citations

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“Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.”

“what you don't know, you don't miss”

“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”

“Your heart can break at any age.”

“I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.”

“What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?”

“Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem”

“Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane”

“She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”

“Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.”

“Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.
And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”

“Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”

“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah, I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

“If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”

“You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.”

“Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.”

“Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”

“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”

“Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.”

“Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.”

“I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out.
But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.”

“That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.”

“So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.”

“Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.”

“He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.”

“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning. Time can't be given. But it can be shared”

“You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. […] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.”

“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”