Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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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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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.
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This story is about people,secrets and time.About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who cover themselves with layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside.
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One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
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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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Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.
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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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Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.
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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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Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.
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you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye. P.S. i will always love you
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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.
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There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.
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A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.
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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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are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?
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They say a story loses something with each telling.
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I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.
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what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
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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
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Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?
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Your heart can break at any age.
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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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It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too