“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.”

— Cecelia Ahern , book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "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 wh…" by Cecelia Ahern?

Cecelia Ahern 156

Irish novelist 1981

Related quotes

“They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

Tel homme qui dans un excès de mélancolie se tue aujourd’hui aimerait à vivre s’il attendait huit jours.
"Cato" http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Html/18/caton.htm (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)

“That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.”

Janis Joplin (1943–1970) American singer and songwriter

On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations