Top 100 Cecelia Ahern Quotes
#1. 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.
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#3. 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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#4. 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?
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#5. I cannot get through this day. But I did. Somehow. And then that day was over and I was facing the night and I said to myself, I cannot face this night. But I did. Somehow
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#6. Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.
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#7. I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.
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#8. Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.
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#9. Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.
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#10. 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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#11. 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.
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#12. Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core
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#15. 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.
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#16. Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence.
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#17. It was the most perfect moment in my life.
It was the last perfect moment in my life.
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#18. 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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#19. They aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.
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#20. There was so much time wasted not spending it together.
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#21. When those who have passed through their troubles and come out the other side suddenly with their new beliefs wholeheartedly, it is viewed with cynicism by others. Why? Because when you're in trouble you look harder for answers than those who aren't, and it's those answers that help you through.
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#22. 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.
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#23. She wanted to do such violent things to him, it scared her.
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#24. I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.
Remember this.
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#25. So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back.
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#26. They worry about my sanity i join with them on that
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#27. Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Most people in life don't have to actively do anything to change us, they simply need to be. I reacted to you. You affected me. You helped me.
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#31. Distance is all I can give someone I can't truly fathom.
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#32. The realisation hits me like a ton of bricks and I can't seem to catch my breath. I couldn't tell anybody my dreams if they asked me right now, nor my hopes and desires. If I was asked to put a plan into action, I wouldn't know where to start. I feel utterly lost.
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#33. I think I need to face
what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.
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#34. Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.
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#36. 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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#38. But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.
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#40. 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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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#43. How often we wish we'd stayed on the same path
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#44. Somewhere along the line I had forgotten to figure out who and where I was.
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#45. You will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye.
P.S. i will always love you
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I suppose it's easier to see the way out of anything when you've found your way out of that maze. When you're stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it's difficult to make any sense of anything.
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#49. Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.
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#50. I helped you help me, you helped me to help you, that's the way it must be or the very idea of help would be obsolete. I always thought that being helped was a loss of control, but you must allow someone to help you, you must want someone to help you, and only then can the act begin.
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#51. 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.
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#52. So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.
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#53. She felt disgusting and used and like she could never trust anyone ever again, and the last thing she wanted was food.
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#54. Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.
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#55. That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things
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#56. One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
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#57. Winter
The season between autumn and spring, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
the coldest months of the year:
December, January and February.
A period of inactivity or decay.
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#58. 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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#59. We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments.
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#60. 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.
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#61. All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.
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#62. The heart knew that something was missing and it was having to work extra hard to make up for it.
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#63. Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone
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#65. Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
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#66. If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it.
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#67. Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing. Never have enough time here, always trying to make our way there. Need to have left here five minutes ago, need to be there now.
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#68. You were my wonderfully bespoke original guide to happiness.
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#69. 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.
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#70. No matter where you are, you always need a best friend
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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.
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#74. There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.
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#75. I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.
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#76. And nobody had told them that they were short on time.
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#77. Am I OK? I'm lots of things. I'm lonely, I'm tired, I'm sad, I'm happy, I'm lucky, I'm unlucky; I'm a million different things every day of the week. But I suppose OK is one of them.
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#78. I lost something that I thought defined me and I felt like a shell of a person. Instead of trying to get it back, I had to figure out why I couldn't be whole all by myself.
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#79. 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.
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#80. While everybody else marches to the beat of their own important drum. I constantly feel hungry, metaphorically and literally.
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#81. 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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#82. 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.
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#83. 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./
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#84. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.
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#85. 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.
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#86. You reap what you sow, even in death. And so i got about sowing
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#87. There was something about him so pure and untarnished,yet he was powerful and well-versed on life.
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#88. Sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.
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#89. Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. -
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#91. She was nicknamed the graveyard. Any secret, any piece of confidential information, personal or otherwise, that went in never, ever came back out. You knew you were safe; you knew you would never be judged or, if you were it would be silently, so you'd never know.
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#92. 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
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#93. Summer
The seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
the warmest months of the year: June, July and August.
The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Maybe the strongest fighters are the nurturers because they're connected to something deep in their core, they've got something to fight for, they've got something worth saving. Granddad
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#97. People's name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.
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#98. How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.
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#99. What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
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#100. Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.
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