Top 380 Cecelia Ahern Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

253. “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

254. “When it comes to my memory there are three categories: things I want to forget, things I can’t forget, and things I’d forgotten until I remember them.”

— Cecelia Ahern

255. “Life’s kind of like a painting. A really bizzare, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is just a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more.”

— Cecelia Ahern

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

— Cecelia Ahern

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

— Cecelia Ahern

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

— Cecelia Ahern

259. “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

260. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

267. “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

268. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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

274. “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

275. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

277. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

279. “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

280. “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

281. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

283. “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

284. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

286. “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

287. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

289. “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

290. “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

291. “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

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

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293. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

295. “Don’t worry, nothing speaks louder than a lifetime of regret and self-loathing.”

— Cecelia Ahern

296. “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

297. “Appreciating your loved ones,” Raphie said, a little embarrassed at first. “Acknowledging all the special people in your life. Concentrating on what’s important.”

— Cecelia Ahern

298. “All thoughts about myself now begin with perhaps... because I’m having to think about myself in ways I never did before and I’m not sure if I’m right in my thinking about these things.”

— Cecelia Ahern

299. “Each second is rather torturous, as though it will never move on, and as though it will never get any easier, and yet when I look back on it, look where we are. Two weeks on. And I’m doing it. And I still believe I simply cannot.”

— Cecelia Ahern

300. “Sometimes the very thing I am looking for is staring me straight in the face, but I can’t see it.”

— Cecelia Ahern