Cecelia Ahern citations

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“Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there…”

“at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.”

“We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.”

“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.”

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

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

“Empty words almost echo within themselves”

“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“People come and go.”