Cecelia Ahern Quotes & Sayings

He is the luckiest man in the world to have you, Rosie, but he doesn't deserve you and you deserve far better. 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 okay. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and who can 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 can make you happy, really happy, dancing-on-air happy. Someone who should have taken the chance to be with you years ago instead of getting scared and being too afraid to try. I am not scared anymore , Rosie. I am not afraid to try. — Cecelia Ahern

This story is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover themselves with layers and layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside. — Cecelia Ahern

That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things — Cecelia Ahern

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind. — Cecelia Ahern

There was something about him so pure and untarnished,yet he was powerful and well-versed on life. — Cecelia Ahern

Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favorite song that you knew by heart. It's like suddenly forgetting the name of someone you know really well and see every day, or the name of a television show you watched for years. It's something so frustrating that it plays on your mind over and over again because you know there's an answer but no one can tell you it. It niggles and niggles at me and I can't rest until I know the answers. — Cecelia Ahern

She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead ... It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence. — Cecelia Ahern

Love can soften people, I believe that. But in me, now, love riles up an anger, a red-hot rage that crawls on my skin, seeps into my blood and brings out the worst in me. That's why everyone I love is better off loving me from afar. — Cecelia Ahern

For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you. — Cecelia Ahern

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow. — Cecelia Ahern

A helping hand can come from the most unlikely of places — Cecelia Ahern

Note to self:
Do not under any circumstances fall in love again. — Cecelia Ahern

People don't know that they do that to people when they do the things they shouldn't. Hurtful things are roots,they spread ,branch out, creep under the surface touching other parts of the lives of those they hurt. It's never one mistake, it's never one moment, it becomes a series of moments, each moment growing roots and spurting in different directions. And over time, they become muddled like an old twisted tree, strangling itself and tying itself up in knots. — Cecelia Ahern

He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly the way are now. — Cecelia Ahern

...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies... — Cecelia Ahern

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 — Cecelia Ahern

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

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

How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity. — Cecelia Ahern

Rosie: Marrying someone you don't love is not right. — Cecelia Ahern

The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced. — Cecelia Ahern

Always just pleasant. Never overexcited. Never, in fact, excited at all. Just pleasant, which is simply another word for nice. — Cecelia Ahern

How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say. — Cecelia Ahern

Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone — Cecelia Ahern

From Alex
To Rosie
Subject Dreams
Again, Rosie, you're just not stretching far enough. I'm right here. Always have been, always will be. — Cecelia Ahern

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs. — Cecelia Ahern

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments. — Cecelia Ahern

Often, when I'm searching for something, the only way I can find anything is to acknowledge out loud what it is, because I can't see it unless I fully register and envision in my mind what it is I'm looking for. — Cecelia Ahern

She wished all her memories could be of the good times, but the bad times kept coming back to haunt her. — Cecelia Ahern

I wish the world was filled with people like you, do you know that? — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

I feel now like I'm living in a goldfish bowl and all I can see and hear from every window in my home is you. You, you, you. — Cecelia Ahern

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

Fear drives us to do many things in our lives. For me, the fear of losing a loved one, and all those terrifying thoughts of what it's like to be left behind and feel alone, drove me to conceive — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

Actually ask him out, I can get Kevin to babysit and then we can all go on a double date, I've always wanted to do that! Ruby: Oh please, the innocence of the young and inexperienced. Ted and Greg will have absolutely nothing in common, they're like chalk and cheese; a bank manager and a possible bank robber. They will hate each other, the atmosphere will be awkward, no one will talk, all you'll hear is the munching of food in our mouths over the deafening silence like some kind of weird Chinese torture, we'll all refuse dessert, skip the coffee, pick up the check, and leg it out the door and feel relieved and promise ourselves never to meet up again. Rosie: How does next Friday sound? Ruby: Friday's fine.
Ahern, Cecelia (2005-02-01). Love, Rosie (pp. 83-84). Hachette Books. Kindle Edition. — Cecelia Ahern

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

So you, me, Fergus, Lorcan, and Lennex are going to change the world, are we?
Not the world. Just the country. And to change the country you only have to change a few minds. — Cecelia Ahern

I can go an entire day without any socialisation, without a conversation with anyone. I wonder sometimes if I'm invisible. I feel like the old men and women who used to bother me by engaging in unnecessary chit-chat with the cashiers while I was stuck behind them, in a hurry, wanting to get on to the next place. When you don't have a next place to go to, time slows down enormously. I feel myself noticing other people more, catching more eyes, or seeking out eye contact. I'm now ripe and ready for a conversation about anything with anyone; it would make my day if somebody would meet my eye, or if there was someone to talk to. But everyone is too busy, and that makes me feel invisible; and invisibility, contrary to what I believed before, lacks any sense of lightness and liberty. Instead it makes me feel heavy. And so I drag myself around, trying to convince myself that I don't feel heavy, invisible, bored and worthless, and that I am free. I do not convince myself well. — Cecelia Ahern

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

Children always want the same things because they all need the same basic things. — Cecelia Ahern

I nurtured with a view to eventually saying goodbye, he nurtured to hold on. — Cecelia Ahern

Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers? — Cecelia Ahern

I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know. — Cecelia Ahern

People are what bother me most in life. It bothers me that so many lack common sense, — Cecelia Ahern

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

The same highly unlikely thing never happens to the same person twice. — Cecelia Ahern

Albert Einstein: 'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.'" He — Cecelia Ahern

Mary May: Dr. Smith says nothing's broken.

Celestine: No. If you don't count my heart, my pride and my complete belief in humanity. — Cecelia Ahern

Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted — Cecelia Ahern

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

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening - big or small - can affect an entire string of people. Occurences can join us all together. — Cecelia Ahern

Rosie: I don't know what you're talking about! I am not waiting for Alex!
Ruby: Yes you are, my dear friend. He must be some man because nobody can ever measure up to him. And I know that's what you do every time you meet someone: compare. I'm sure he's a fabulous friend and I'm sure he always says sweet and wonderful thing to you. But he's not here. He's thousands of miles away, working as a doctor in a great big hospital and he lives in a fancy apartment with his fancy doctor fiancee. I don't think he's thinking of leaving that life anytime soon to come back to a single mother who's living in a tiny flat working in a crappy part-time job in a paperclip factory with a crazy friend who emails her every second. So stop waiting and move on. Live your life. — Cecelia Ahern

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different. — Cecelia Ahern

I find that, usually, answers present themselves. They are not hidden under rocks or camouflaged among trees. Answers are right there, in front of our eyes. But if you haven't cause to look, then of course you will probably never find them. — Cecelia Ahern

Age is only a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behavior. — Cecelia Ahern

I believe you, Tamara, I just don't believe it. — Cecelia Ahern

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

Everybody, every single person, has a story to tell. Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. We might all think that we are unremarkable, that our lives are boring, just because we aren't doing ground-breaking things or making headlines or winning awards. But the truth is we all do something that is fascinating, that is brave, that is something we should proud of. — Cecelia Ahern

Ruby: Oh, you know ... you wait and wait for years for him until you finally give up and move on with your life. You eventually decide to marry Greg and weeks later, Alex splits up with Sally. You know, you two have the worst timing ever. When will you ever learn to catch up with each other? — Cecelia Ahern

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

The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths — Cecelia Ahern

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake. — Cecelia Ahern

Appreciating your loved ones," Raphie said, a little embarrassed at first. "Acknowledging all the special people in your life. Concentrating on what's important. — Cecelia Ahern

Where would we be without tomorrows? What we'd have instead are todays. And if that was the case, with you, I'd hope for the longest day for today. I'd fill today with you, doing everything I've ever loved. I'd laugh, I'd talk, I'd listen and learn, I'd love, I'd love, I'd love. I'd make every day today and spend them all with you, and I'd never worry about tomorrow, when I wouldn't be with you. And when that dreaded tomorrow comes for us, please know that I didn't want to leave you, or be left behind, that every single moment spent with you were the best times in my life. — Cecelia Ahern

I missed her, the idea of her. — Cecelia Ahern

I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do. — Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes I forget why I feel that way, I just have this feeling that something bad has happened to me and affected my life. — Cecelia Ahern

From Stephanie
To Rosie
Subject Re: Life
Well, isn't that one thing you're all the wiser for? Age has taught you something. That nobody knows what's going on. — Cecelia Ahern

Well, even a garden grows stranglers, love. It grows them naturally, all by itself. They creep up and choke the plants that are growing from the very same soil as they are. We each have our demons, our self-destruct button. Even in gardens. Pretty as they may be. If you don't potter, you don't notice them. — Cecelia Ahern

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan. — Cecelia Ahern

Some things are better left the way they are — Cecelia Ahern

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination. — Cecelia Ahern

When you don't have a next place to go, time slows down enormously. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

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

And then one good thing happened that day, the first good thing, the only good thing, but sometimes you only ever need one good thing. — Cecelia Ahern

This wash't how people spoke to each other. Where was the pretense that we liked each other, that we were both happy to be there, and we'd meet again? — Cecelia Ahern

Empty words almost echo within themselves — Cecelia Ahern

I'm missing something, you know? That special 'sparkle' that ;life is supposed to bring. I have the job, the child, the family, the apartment and the friends, but I've lost the sparkle./ — Cecelia Ahern

This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time. — Cecelia Ahern

Father and I have the best relationship. Sometimes our thoughts are so similar it's almost as if we're the same person. When people see us they are blown away by our bond, by the respect he holds for me, by the admiration I hold for him. — Cecelia Ahern

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

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

What was it, I wondered, that we had then that we could revive now? — Cecelia Ahern

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

Don't worry..we all have our blips. See, we all go through it, now it's your turn. It's only fair — Cecelia Ahern

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

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. — Cecelia Ahern

It's hard for everyone isn't it? Anyone who says it's easy is a liar. There's
this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we're living
in such different worlds, I don't know what to talk about with him anymore.
And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I
listen to what he's been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue
every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk
about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting
once upon a time. — Cecelia Ahern

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

I think life likes to do that every now and again. Every so often it likes to dip and when you feel like you can't take any more it smoothes out again. — Cecelia Ahern

When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line. — Cecelia Ahern

Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I've decided to
become a heart surgeon!
Rosie: Cool, does it pay well?
Alex: Rosie, it's not about the money.
Rosie: Where I come from, it's all about the money. Probably because I
don't have any. — Cecelia Ahern

Despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realized that my hour and someone else's hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way; we cannot think of it in the same way. — Cecelia Ahern

I told you I'd find you. — Cecelia Ahern

Here's an idea, Rosie. Why don't you just tell Alex how you feel? Why don't you just finally get all of those feelings out in the open, and clear your messed-up little head? At least then he'll know that you're not going over not because you don't care about him, but that in fact you love him, more than he knows, but that you need to stay here for Katie. Then that will put the ball in his court. He can make the decision whether to come to you or not. — Cecelia Ahern

People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time. — Cecelia Ahern

There was nothing wrong with having an expensive home, nothing wrong at all. There's a pride in building something up, working hard to achieve something. But it shouldn't have been his manhood that increased with each new success, it should have been his heart. His success was like the witch in 'Hansel and Gretel' fairy tale: it fed him for all the wrong reasons, fattening him in all the wrong places. Dad deserved his success, he just needed a masterclass in humility. I could have done with one too. How special I thought I was in the silver Aston Martin in which he drove me to school some mornings. How special am I now, now that somebody bought it from a depot of reprocessed cars, for a fraction of the price. How special indeed — Cecelia Ahern

Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part. — Cecelia Ahern