Top 380 Cecelia Ahern Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Before even when she lay in bed looking frail and weak she still managed to make me feel safe. Mothers do that don’t they? Their very presence can help. And even if I ended up mothering her in the final days, she still was taking care of me. I miss her.”

— Cecelia Ahern

252. “We need publicity that allows me to talk about the gift of giving, how precious it is, how special it can be, particularly in these times when people are really struggling. It’s not about how expensive something is – as a nation we’ve stopped giving lavish gifts – it’s actually about thinking about what to give someone, how it can lift them when they’re down, how they can feel loved and important and special just by one simple gesture.”

— Cecelia Ahern

253. “I told you I’d find you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

254. “She was nicknamed the graveyard. Any secret, any piece of confidential information, personal or otherwise, that went in never, ever came back out. You knew you were safe; you knew you would never be judged or, if you were it would be silently, so you’d never know.”

— Cecelia Ahern

255. “People can surprise you when you suffer through grief. It’s not true that you discover who your friends are, but it’s true to say that their characters are revealed.”

— Cecelia Ahern

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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.”

— Cecelia Ahern

259. “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

260. “Some people say that you shouldn’t operate from a place of fear. But if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? Often that is when I’ve done my best work, because I have embraced the fear and challenged myself.”

— Cecelia Ahern

261. “I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.”

— Cecelia Ahern

262. “Albert Einstein: ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’” He.”

— Cecelia Ahern

263. “We’re not in this life just to work, we’re in it to live.”

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264. “Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence.”

— Cecelia Ahern

265. “It’s difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it’s too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late.”

— Cecelia Ahern

266. “This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.”

— Cecelia Ahern

267. “We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it’s easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.”

— Cecelia Ahern

268. “The cold, like the darkness, can become a deceptive comfort you never want to leave.”

— Cecelia Ahern

269. “I don’t know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they’re just closet pyromaniacs.”

— Cecelia Ahern

270. “My mother says that I have a knack for remembering what others forget. Sometimes it’s a curse; nobody likes it when there’s somebody to remember what they’ve tried so hard to bury.”

— Cecelia Ahern

271. “The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It’s there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths.”

— Cecelia Ahern

272. “Though when she thought of it after, it was rather unprofessional behaviour, but sometimes when people are involved, business has to stop being business and the human must win. However, Kitty couldn’t ignore the underlying truth that they both hung on to that hug for a little too long.”

— Cecelia Ahern

273. “To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn’t.”

— Cecelia Ahern

274. “Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. You would think it would be an innate human instinct but no, i inhale and forget to exhale and so I find my body rigid, all tensed up, heart pounding, chest tight with an anxious head wondering what’s wrong.”

— Cecelia Ahern

275. “You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.”

— Cecelia Ahern

276. “Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!”

— Cecelia Ahern

277. “Sometimes I forget why I feel that way, I just have this feeling that something bad has happened to me and affected my life.”

— Cecelia Ahern

278. “Freedom of speech isn’t something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they’ll shout even louder.”

— Cecelia Ahern

279. “Sometimes you see everything so clearly and other times you can’t even see yourself, but then, isn’t that all of us?”

— Cecelia Ahern

280. “She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed but never slept. Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier and each morning she wished for night to fall quickly so she could return to her bed to hug her pillows and wrap herself in the warmth of her blankets.”

— Cecelia Ahern

281. “So that makes time more precious, doesn’t it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you’ll never get them back.”

— Cecelia Ahern

282. “Despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realized that my hour and someone else’s hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way; we cannot think of it in the same way.”

— Cecelia Ahern

283. “The same highly unlikely thing never happens to the same person twice.”

— Cecelia Ahern

284. “One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”

— Cecelia Ahern

285. “UnsureOne: But surely if you’ve been friends since you were six and you’re now thirty-two, you’ve both been married once and are now living with other people in different countries, then if it hasn’t happened by now, it won’t be happening at all.”

— Cecelia Ahern

286. “In this place, fun and laughing makes them angry. We are not here to be leaders, we are here to serve.”

— Cecelia Ahern

287. “Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.”

— Cecelia Ahern

288. “She felt relieved to have known him, to love him and to be loved by him, and relief that the last thing he saw was her face smiling down on him, encouraging him and assuring him it was OK to let go.”

— Cecelia Ahern

289. “And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think “I’m where I want to be now.”

— Cecelia Ahern

290. “She wished all her memories could be of the good times, but the bad times kept coming back to haunt her.”

— Cecelia Ahern

291. “Our thoughts are ever-changing, because we put them there. Once you grasp the difference between suicidal thoughts and your feelings, you will start to understand your emotions. You can separate your suicidal thoughts from your feelings.”

— Cecelia Ahern

292. “Ruby: You can put whatever name you like on it but at the end of the day a missed opportunity is a missed opportunity. But don’t worry; I think there’s a lesson to be learned in all this.”

— Cecelia Ahern

293. “She also wants the freedom to be able to act as she deems appropriate, without fearing or dreading the feedback, the sensing the disapproval and disappointment. Of always letting him down. Of having to check herself. She doesn’t want any more cold air between them, but mostly she doesn’t like to have to second-guess herself at a job that she knows she’s more than capable of doing.”

— Cecelia Ahern

294. “I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books – whether it’s strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.”

— Cecelia Ahern

295. “Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we’re all here, waiting for her.”

— Cecelia Ahern

296. “Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don’t think I ever met you in the middle. And I don’t think I ever once said that you for that.”

— Cecelia Ahern

297. “That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things.”

— Cecelia Ahern

298. “Were we lost and unaccounted for, or was this where we truly belonged and our normal lives the original error?”

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299. “I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do.”

— Cecelia Ahern

300. “How can a place be a home if no one wants you there? This is not a home.”

— Cecelia Ahern