Top 100 Cecelia Ahern Quotes
#1. Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. -
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#2. I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. The heart knew that something was missing and it was having to work extra hard to make up for it.
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#6. I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.
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#7. One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
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#8. And nobody had told them that they were short on time.
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#9. Hence all thoughts about myself now begin with Perhaps ... because I'm having to think about myself in ways I never did before and I'm not sure if I'm right in my thinking about those things.
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#10. She wanted to do such violent things to him, it scared her.
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#11. There was so much time wasted not spending it together.
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#12. 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?
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#13. 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.
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#14. Ruby: Oh Rosie Dunne, expect the unexpected for once. Maybe this time you won't get such a shock when things don't go your way.
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#15. My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.
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#16. Anyway, my point is (I know, I know, there is one), 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. I want us to be best friends forever, Alex.
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#17. Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.
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#18. Distance is all I can give someone I can't truly fathom.
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#19. We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.
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#21. 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.
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#22. That's what life is about: People come and go.
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#23. 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.
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#24. I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#28. Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
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#29. What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?
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#30. Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you ... and remember, shoot for the moon.
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#32. Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there ...
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#33. I've learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. They say a story loses something with each telling.
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#37. Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice
we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too
stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we
got it all wrong.
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#38. I cant' believe Doris's hair is real too.'
'All but the colour ...
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#39. You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.'
'And yet it is still extremely funny.
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#40. 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.
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#41. You are a circus act all of your own and I cannot help but be your audience.
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#42. It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.
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#46. 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.
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#47. People who believe that they are not interesting, usually are the most interesting of all.
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#48. 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.
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#50. I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white
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#51. She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.
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#53. 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.
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#54. You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.
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#55. When you don't have a next place to go, time slows down enormously.
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#56. After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.
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#57. Katie: People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell. Why don't you talk to him?
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#58. 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.
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#59. Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up),
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#60. Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn't want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants to bring it to the hospital himself, survey the wards and present it to someone special, for it's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a very long time.
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#61. 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.
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#62. You can't hold on to all things forever, no matter how hard you grip them.
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#63. I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.
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#64. And yet 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.
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#65. Then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.
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#66. People didn't always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.
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#67. Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
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#68. 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
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#69. Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?
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#70. 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
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#71. Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
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#72. Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect.
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#73. 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.
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#74. And older people were like babies; something about their demeanour made you love them despite their ignorant selfish personalities.
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#75. Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
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#76. Wanting everything that's mine to actually be mine and not at the mercy of others and their mistakes.
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#77. We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.
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#78. Enough time leaves us warm; when our time is gone, it leaves us cold
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#79. 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.
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#81. 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.
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#82. I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things having to be found.
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#83. Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.
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#84. 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.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.
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#87. 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.
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#88. In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings.
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#89. Always just pleasant. Never overexcited. Never, in fact, excited at all. Just pleasant, which is simply another word for nice.
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#90. It's incredibly frustrating to forget. It must be an entirely other thing to be the forgotten
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#91. Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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#92. It bothers me that so many lack common sense, that their opinions can be so biased and backward, so utterly frustrating,misguided,misinformed and dangerous that I can't stand to listen to them.
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#93. He's a simple man only I don't really believe that. Nobody who says as little as he does, is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking and he thinks a lot.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Before even when she lay in bed looking frail and weak she still managed to make me feel safe. Mothers do that don't they? Their very presence can help. And even if I ended up mothering her in the final days, she still was taking care of me. I miss her.
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#96. 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.
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#97. There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.
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#98. I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
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#99. Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?
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#100. Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
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