Top 380 Cecelia Ahern Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Some people say that you shouldn’t operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?”

— Cecelia Ahern

202. “Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”

— Cecelia Ahern

203. “Cross your fingers and pray for a miracle.”

— Cecelia Ahern

204. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

205. “Forget the old man,” she says sternly, so coldly, so devoid of all the love that I know her to have, that I don’t recognize her, and for that I don’t recognize the world. They are my roots, my foundations, and they sit before me now uprooted and saying things I never thought they’d say. “You will not allow a Flawed to ruin your life,” she says, and her voice cracks.”

— Cecelia Ahern

206. “I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.”

— Cecelia Ahern

207. “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

208. “Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.”

— Cecelia Ahern

209. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

210. “There’s the person who you think you should be and there’s the person who you really are. I’ve lost sense of both.”

— Cecelia Ahern

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

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

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213. “They say a story loses something with each telling.”

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214. “Believe me, when you die, it’s everybody else’s but your problem.”

— Cecelia Ahern

215. “When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.”

— Cecelia Ahern

216. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

217. “They’re seeing each other for the first time, two complete strangers, unable to take their eyes off each other. It is the moment his life splits; who he was before he met her and who becomes after.”

— Cecelia Ahern

218. “There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.”

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219. “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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220. “Apart from them, Kitty had never been able to keep friends, not because she was disloyal in any way, she just felt that she hadn’t connected with anyone deeply since her school friends and so it was easy to drift away as life moved on, as college finished and as she found new jobs and created new friendships that lasted as long as the jobs had.”

— Cecelia Ahern

221. “He pauses, looking around at the youthful faces staring up at him, their minds empty vessels waiting to be filled. So much to learn, so little time to do it in, such little passion within them to understand it truly. It is his job to give them passion. To share with them his experiences of travel, his knowledge of all the great masterpieces of centuries ago.”

— Cecelia Ahern

222. “How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.”

— Cecelia Ahern

223. “When 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 towards you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying, ‘Bold ground,’ then you pick yourself up and get on with it.”

— Cecelia Ahern

224. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

225. “And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.”

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226. “And nobody had told them that they were short on time.”

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227. “Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.”

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228. “Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted.”

— Cecelia Ahern

229. “I’ve learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way.”

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230. “People who believe that they are not interesting, usually are the most interesting of all.”

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231. “Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.”

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232. “My eyes move from side to side. I try to focus but I can’t. I know why I’m here and I don’t know why I’m here. I understand, and then I don’t. I think it’s fair, and then I don’t. I wish I’d never done what I did, and then I’m glad I did. I want to scream, but I don’t.”

— Cecelia Ahern

233. “Love can soften people, I believe that. But in me, now, love riles up an anger, a red-hot rage that crawls on my skin, seeps into my blood and brings out the worst in me. That’s why everyone I love is better off loving me from afar.”

— Cecelia Ahern

234. “Josh takes chances; he’s braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn’t. He does it anyway and he learns. I think we adults have a lot to learn from that. Perhaps to be not so afraid and oversensible about reaching for goals.”

— Cecelia Ahern

235. “I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. – When you’re happy, you don’t question the world so much. When you’re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery.”

— Cecelia Ahern

236. “It can take a lifetime to build up a friendship- it can take a second to make an enemy.”

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237. “Well that’s the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.”

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238. “So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do equally with your life, because its yours, its you, and its always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can’t do it.”

— Cecelia Ahern

239. “Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.”

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240. “Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.”

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241. “Good girls always come second.”

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242. “There is a space that people hold for you, within themselves. Every person has a space for every person they met – sometimes the capacity is deep, sometimes it is shallow.”

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243. “Maybe it’s wrong to deprive people of that experience, this experience of you I’m, having. Maybe I didn’t want to share you.”

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244. “I’ve come a long way. But I’ve a distance to go. My dream? My dream is to soar happily into my future.”

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245. “For him life was all full of opportunities, and I don’t think that was necessarily a bad thing, but I think he wanted to grab them for all the wrong reasons. He wasn’t passionate about art, he didn’t care about lawyers helping people, he didn’t even care about my singing voice. It was all for more money. And so I suppose it was fitting that it was the loss of all his money that killed him in the end. The pills and the whiskey were just the nails in the coffin.”

— Cecelia Ahern

246. “But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else’s life. Sometimes I’ll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they’re not alone, that I’m not alone, that it’s ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I’m plunged back into reality.”

— Cecelia Ahern

247. “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.”

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248. “His entired life bundled into wenty refuse sacks. His and her memories bundle away in Holly’s mind. Each item unearthed dust, tears, laughter and memories. She bagged the items, cleared the dust, wiped her eyes and filed away the memories.”

— Cecelia Ahern

249. “The heart knew that something was missing and it was having to work extra hard to make up for it.”

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250. “How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they’d both wanted so much to avoid.”

— Cecelia Ahern