Cecelia Ahern famous quotes

But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Laughter #Tired #Missing

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#People #Awkward #Trying

...God leads you to it and takes you through it.
-- Cecelia Ahern

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Believe #Book #Ideas

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Too Late #Realizing #Moments

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
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Stupid #Mean #Long

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Lonely #Couple #Cutting

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Simple #Together #Plans

You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Love #Dream #Heart

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

#Falling In Love #Heart #Moon

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Home #Feelings

I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. — When you’re happy, you don’t question the world so much. When you’re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Believe #Discovery #Self

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Life #Running #Coffee

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Together #Glue #Needs

To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#New Beginnings #Pursuit

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Hate #Soul #Lines

Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#People #Trying #Kicking

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Time #War #Heart

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Life #Inspirational Life #Lessons

When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table breaks, or a picture fall of the wall, it makes noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent... and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Wall #Pain #Fall

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Wall #Lying #People

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Facts #Ever After #Happily Ever After

oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Hurt #Calling #Given

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Lasts #Remember #Last Time

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Want #Way

There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Action #Follow Through #Deals

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Feelings

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Dream #Believe #Positive Thinking

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#I Love You More #Needs #Want

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

#Play #Important #Roles

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Flower #Butterfly #Thinking

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

#I Love You #Class #Luxury

Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Alive #Endless #Terrible

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Believe #Sadness #Choices

"What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'"
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Gratitude #Love You #College

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Blow #Wind #People

Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Memories #Smell #Romance

There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Love #Dream #Believe

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Romantic #Love You #Love Life

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Luxury #People #Romance

It’s not easy remembering the good times.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Good Times #Remember #Easy

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?
-- Cecelia Ahern

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Fall #Rivers #Luck

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

#Decision #Bad Decision #Unlucky

This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else now, as it did for the people before us, and I feel happy to let it go. Happy that I can begin again, anew, though bearing the scars of before. They represent wounds that have healed.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Dream #Memories #People

Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Heart #Order #Class

This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Fall #Falling For You #Groups

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Dad #Appreciate #Want

Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can’t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think “I’m where I want to be now.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Mean #Thinking #Talking

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Wise #Secret #Age

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Morning #Silly #Missing

Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Change #Thinking #Blow

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Memories #Years #People

I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I’ve met some great guys here, but I didn’t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don’t feel like they are real friends. I haven’t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. It’s kind of hard to beat that.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Growing Up #Real #Heart

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Thinking #Order #Needs

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Heart #Giving #Mind

Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Selfish #Party #Men

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare my marriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Running #Dad #Advice

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Falling In Love #Mind #Done

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Perfect #Together #Titles

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
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Children #Growing Up #Needs

I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Thinking #Boston #Cry

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
-- Cecelia Ahern

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Ocean #Islands #Sea

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Jesus #Writing #Men

Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Depressing #Giving #Hollies

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Giving Up #Difficult #Horrible

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#People #Want #Facts

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Husband #Heart #Makeup

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Mistake #Perfect #Bigger

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

#People #Challenges #No Fear

I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Thinking #People #Anything Can Happen

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’.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Dream #Thinking #Make You Think

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Years #Issues #Tragic

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Love Is #Miserable #Rosie

That's what life is about: People come and go.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#People #Life Is #Comes And Goes

You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Sarcasm #Extremely Funny #Form

Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Believe #Life Is

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

#House #Soul #Grew Up

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Dream #Jobs #Memories

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Numbers #Mind #Age

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#People #Figures #Needed

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Love Is #Atmosphere #Mood

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Taken #Perfect #Stuff

I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Book #Thinking #Ideas

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Fall #Cry #Chin Up

Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Moving

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

#Sick #Jelly #Fool

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Trying #Difficult

His entired life bundled into wenty refuse sacks. His and her memories bundle away in Holly's mind. Each item unearthed dust, tears, laughter and memories. She bagged the items, cleared the dust, wiped her eyes and filed away the memories.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Laughter #Memories #Eye

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Rain #Fall #Dark

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#People #Littles #Hiding

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Eye #People #Matter

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Eye #Sight #People

We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#People #Feelings #Needs

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Lying #Two #Laughing

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.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Two #Differences #Looks

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Walks

I think I wished for you all of my life.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Thinking

Time cant be given. But it can be shared.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Given