Top 380 Cecelia Ahern Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

52. “For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for – Thank you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

53. “Empty words almost echo within themselves.”

— Cecelia Ahern

54. “Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends.”

— Cecelia Ahern

55. “I think I wished for you all of my life.”

— Cecelia Ahern

56. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

57. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

58. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

59. “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

60. “Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.”

— Cecelia Ahern

61. “You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.”

— Cecelia Ahern

62. “Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive.”

— Cecelia Ahern

63. “We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”

— Cecelia Ahern

64. “People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don’t matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don’t have.”

— Cecelia Ahern

65. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

66. “I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.”

— Cecelia Ahern

67. “Close your eyes and stare into the dark.”

— Cecelia Ahern

68. “I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it’s a more visual process for me – I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.”

— Cecelia Ahern

69. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

70. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

71. “The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.”

— Cecelia Ahern

72. “Life is everything, and you haven’t lived it properly until you believe.”

— Cecelia Ahern

73. “When you see something, it can’t be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.”

— Cecelia Ahern

74. “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 OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and who can protect you from your fears.”

— Cecelia Ahern

75. “But even in her laughter there was something missing. 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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

76. “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

77. “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

78. “Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.”

— Cecelia Ahern

79. “I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.”

— Cecelia Ahern

80. “Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?”

— Cecelia Ahern

81. “Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.”

— Cecelia Ahern

82. “You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.”

— Cecelia Ahern

83. “What seems tragic now won’t even be an issue in a few years time.”

— Cecelia Ahern

84. “There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”

— Cecelia Ahern

85. “Always a chancer, always lucky, he’d fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.”

— Cecelia Ahern

86. “You reap what you sow, even in death. And so i got about sowing.”

— Cecelia Ahern

87. “If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”

— Cecelia Ahern

88. “More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we’re going backward when we’re actually moving forward.”

— Cecelia Ahern

89. “You were my wonderfully bespoke original guide to happiness.”

— Cecelia Ahern

90. “When a member of the family leaves or dies, it changes the dynamics of a family. People move and shift, take up places they either wanted to have or are forced into roles they never wanted. It happens without anybody noticing, but it’s shifting all the time.”

— Cecelia Ahern

91. “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

92. “I’m most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.”

— Cecelia Ahern

93. “That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.”

— Cecelia Ahern

94. “She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn’t have to worry about a thing and that someone else would take care of everything. How easy life would be without having grown-up problems to worry about. And then she could grow up all over again...”

— Cecelia Ahern

95. “I would love to write a mystery – a romantic, funny mystery.”

— Cecelia Ahern

96. “You are a circus act all of your own and I cannot help but be your audience.”

— Cecelia Ahern

97. “Why do bad things happen to good people? Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time.”

— Cecelia Ahern

98. “Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”

— Cecelia Ahern

99. “Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.”

— Cecelia Ahern

100. “I’ve learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.”

— Cecelia Ahern