Top 380 Cecelia Ahern Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

102. “Los momentos son muy valiosos; a veces se prolongan y otra veces son fugaces, y sin embargo puede hacerse mucho en ellos; en un momento puedes cambiar una mente, puedes salvar una vida y puedes incluso enamorarte.”

— Cecelia Ahern

103. “In truth, we’re all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.”

— Cecelia Ahern

104. “I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.”

— Cecelia Ahern

105. “I was the life and she was the soul of every party.”

— Cecelia Ahern

106. “He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.”

— Cecelia Ahern

107. “I found a new and surprising strength inside of me, I found it at the bottom of a dark and lonely place, but I found it. And unfortunately, that’s where we find most of life’s treasures. After digging, toiling in the darkness and dire, we finally hit something concrete. I learned that rock bottom can actually be a springboard.”

— Cecelia Ahern

108. “Your heart can break at any age.”

— Cecelia Ahern

109. “We see being Flawed as a strength, Celestine. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you’re never the wiser. These so-called perfect leaders we have now have never made a mistake. How can they have learned what’s right and wrong, how could they have learned anything about themselves? About what they feel comfortable doing, about what they feel is beyond the scope of their character? The more mistake you have made, the more you have learned.”

— Cecelia Ahern

110. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

111. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

112. “There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It’s good for the soul.”

— Cecelia Ahern

113. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

114. “I hate goodbyes, but hating them is never a justification to stay.”

— Cecelia Ahern

115. “Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts.”

— Cecelia Ahern

116. “She’s just a friend. Four words that could possibly kill any woman, but they made me smile... And the castle was my witness.”

— Cecelia Ahern

117. “It’s nobody’s fault. It’s not my fault. I didn’t do anything wrong, I know that now. It’s just the way it is. Sometimes things just don’t work out. You and me, we worked for the amount of time that we worked, then we didn’t anymore. We can’t go back, and frankly, I can’t see what we can be. I’ve changed.”

— Cecelia Ahern

118. “The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color.”

— Cecelia Ahern

119. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

120. “She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”

— Cecelia Ahern

121. “Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It’s the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise.”

— Cecelia Ahern

122. “Every heart has a story to tell.”

— Cecelia Ahern

123. “Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane.”

— Cecelia Ahern

124. “It’s not easy remembering the good times.”

— Cecelia Ahern

125. “It’s like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That’s how we keep going.”

— Cecelia Ahern

126. “Some things are better left the way they are.”

— Cecelia Ahern

127. “Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man’s home.”

— Cecelia Ahern

128. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

129. “I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.”

— Cecelia Ahern

130. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

131. “Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I’m so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I’ll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life” He whispered. “But now it is time for us to part.”

— Cecelia Ahern

132. “You can’t replace people, Paul, you’ll never be replaced, but you can replace roles.”

— Cecelia Ahern

133. “Love is not a theme. It’s an atmosphere, a mood.”

— Cecelia Ahern

134. “I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.”

— Cecelia Ahern

135. “I don’t know why, but there’s always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn’t ever want to leave the dark behind.”

— Cecelia Ahern

136. “What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?”

— Cecelia Ahern

137. “I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”

— Cecelia Ahern

138. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

139. “So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.”

— Cecelia Ahern

140. “I am just a chapter in your life, there will be many more.”

— Cecelia Ahern

141. “Silent people hold a magic and a knowledge that less contained people lack; that their not saying something means that more important thoughts are going on inside their head. Perhaps their seeming simplicity belies a hidden mosaic of fanciful thoughts.”

— Cecelia Ahern

142. “People come and people go and we know this happens, yet we get such a shock when it does.”

— Cecelia Ahern

143. “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

144. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

145. “She told me that to seek the truth is not necessarily to go on a mission all guns blazing in order to reveal a lie, neither is it to be particularly ground-breaking – it is simply to get to the heart of what is real.”

— Cecelia Ahern

146. “She couldn’t remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”

— Cecelia Ahern

147. “That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.”

— Cecelia Ahern

148. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

149. “Never do something that can’t be undone.”

— Cecelia Ahern

150. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern