C Ahern Quotes

#1. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

Cecelia Ahern

#2. I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.
Remember this.

Cecelia Ahern

#3. Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.

Cecelia Ahern

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

Cecelia Ahern

#8. 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

#9. The more partners I had, the more I realized Gregory and I were the best pair I'd ever come across. But in my pursuit of answers to all the difficult questions in my life, I missed out on the obvious ones right in front of my very eyes.

Cecelia Ahern

#10. 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

#11. Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?

Cecelia Ahern