Cecelia Ahern Quotes

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

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.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

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

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

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

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

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

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

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

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.

More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

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.

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.

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

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

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.

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.

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

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe

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

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

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.

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

That was other thing i hated about kids; they always said th exact things that deep dpwn you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

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

well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

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

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

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

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

And nobody had told them that they were short on time.

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.