Top 380 Cecelia Ahern Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “And then one good thing happened that day, the first good thing, the only good thing, but sometimes you only ever need one good thing.”

— Cecelia Ahern

152. “We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.”

— Cecelia Ahern

153. “Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers.”

— Cecelia Ahern

154. “They say a story loses something with each telling. If that is the case, this story has lost nothing, for it’s the first time it’s been told.”

— Cecelia Ahern

155. “I’ve learned that home is not a place, it’s a feeling. I can make the flat look as pretty as I can, put as many flower boxes on the window sill as I want, put a welcome mat outside the front door, hang a Home Sweet Home sign over the fireplace, and take to wearing aprons and baking cookies, but the truth is that I know I don’t want to stay here forever.”

— Cecelia Ahern

156. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

157. “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

158. “I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.”

— Cecelia Ahern

159. “Nobody else around me seems to be looking around and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I’m the only person who is confused and concerned about the choices I’ve made and where I’m headed? Everywhere I look, I see people just getting on with it.”

— Cecelia Ahern

160. “Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.”

— Cecelia Ahern

161. “Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your 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. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?”

— Cecelia Ahern

162. “Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It’s the fact that I live happily ever after.”

— Cecelia Ahern

163. “Power. It’s all about that, don’t you forget. People want money or power.”

— Cecelia Ahern

164. “He aprendido que el hogar no es un sitio, es un sentimiento.”

— Cecelia Ahern

165. “She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.”

— Cecelia Ahern

166. “Rosie: What the hell was that silence? Steph: It sounds like something I’d like. It sounded nice. Rosie: It was.”

— Cecelia Ahern

167. “Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

168. “I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.”

— Cecelia Ahern

169. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

170. “We are constantly evolving; I suppose I have always known that, I feared stopping, and it is ironic that it was only when I finally stopped that I moved the most. I know now that we never truly stop, our journey is never complete, because we will continue to flourish – just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”

— Cecelia Ahern

171. “To look back, to go back, is not to be weak. It is not to reopen wounds. It takes strength, it takes courage. It takes a person who is more in control of who they are to cast a discerning, non-judgmental eye over who they once were.”

— Cecelia Ahern

172. “Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.”

— Cecelia Ahern

173. “But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”

— Cecelia Ahern

174. “And sometimes when you witness a miracle it makes you believe that anything is possible.”

— Cecelia Ahern

175. “Don’t mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.”

— Cecelia Ahern

176. “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. Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can’t be given. But it can be shared.”

— Cecelia Ahern

177. “A sunflower for my sunflower. To brighten the dark October days you hate so much. Plant some more, and be safe in the knowledge a warm and bright summer awaits.”

— Cecelia Ahern

178. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

179. “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

180. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

181. “Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.”

— Cecelia Ahern

182. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

183. “I constantly feel hungry, metaphorically and literally. I am hungry for something to do, somewhere to go, but I’m also hungry for everything in my kitchen because it’s there, right beside me, every day and I have nothing better to do than eat it. I am bored. And as much as it pains me to say it, I am lonely. I can go an entire day without any socialisation, without a conversation with anyone. I wonder sometimes if I’m invisible.”

— Cecelia Ahern

184. “The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.”

— Cecelia Ahern

185. “As women, we dress to please ourselves, to hide our imperfections, to accentuate our best features. Our clothing is an extension of who we are, a reflection of what we are thinking and feeling.”

— Cecelia Ahern

186. “Yes it’s difficult. Yes it’s horrible. Yes it’s the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can’t give up.”

— Cecelia Ahern

187. “I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen.”

— Cecelia Ahern

188. “That was other thing i hated about kids; they always said th exact things that deep dpwn you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.”

— Cecelia Ahern

189. “Instead, the act of going back made new memories, and everytime I went I would add another layer on top of her memory, until eventually I’d buried them completely and all of those places stopped being about my past with her and became my present.”

— Cecelia Ahern

190. “Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow.”

— Cecelia Ahern

191. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

192. “Miracles only grow where you plant them.”

— Cecelia Ahern

193. “When you see somwthing, it can’t be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can’t be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that cam never be unlearned.”

— Cecelia Ahern

194. “A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it’s over. Be pleasant but don’t smile too much; be sad but don’t overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don’t let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming.”

— Cecelia Ahern

195. “I can’t be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.”

— Cecelia Ahern

196. “Remember our wonderful memories, but please don’t be afraid to make some more.”

— Cecelia Ahern

197. “Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.”

— Cecelia Ahern

198. “She was being a jealous, bitter and incredibly selfish friend, she knew that, but Holly needed to be selfish these days in order to survive. She.”

— Cecelia Ahern

199. “There was so much time wasted not spending it together.”

— Cecelia Ahern

200. “Nice is OK when it’s among other things but never when it stands alone.”

— Cecelia Ahern