Top 380 Cecelia Ahern Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Do unto others as others have done to you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

302. “So I’m beginning to think that when I’m fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety years old I still won’t be any closer to being wise and knowledgeable. Perhaps people on their deathbeds, who have had long, long lives, seen it all, travelled the world, have had kids, been through their own personal traumas, beaten their demons and learned the harsh lessons of life will be thinking : God, people in heaven must really know it all.”

— Cecelia Ahern

303. “This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time.”

— Cecelia Ahern

304. “Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”

— Cecelia Ahern

305. “The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn’t like it. She thought she was a better person than this.”

— Cecelia Ahern

306. “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

307. “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

308. “I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.”

— Cecelia Ahern

309. “I cannot get through this day. But I did. Somehow. And then that day was over and I was facing the night and I said to myself, I cannot face this night. But I did. Somehow.”

— Cecelia Ahern

310. “Why can’t people just be really good at something? Why do they have to be the best at something?”

— Cecelia Ahern

311. “I’d tried enough to know that anything long term wasn’t going to work.”

— Cecelia Ahern

312. “You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn’t turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity.”

— Cecelia Ahern

313. “The moon made me do it.”

— Cecelia Ahern

314. “I’d live anywhere, – in one room, in the castle ruin right now – if it meant we could all just be together.”

— Cecelia Ahern

315. “My friends’ hugs are longer and tighter; consist of extra squeezes and pats, which alternate between a circular rubbing motion and a light pitter-pattering on the back, both of which I find surprisingly comforting.”

— Cecelia Ahern

316. “When you don’t have a next place to go, time slows down enormously.”

— Cecelia Ahern

317. “Dad was more into last impressions than first ones, which makes his death all the more symbolic.”

— Cecelia Ahern

318. “If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It’s your life, you’re the one who dies, you’re the one who loses it.”

— Cecelia Ahern

319. “Somewhere along the line I had forgotten to figure out who and where I was.”

— Cecelia Ahern

320. “She wanted to do such violent things to him, it scared her.”

— Cecelia Ahern

321. “I am hungry for something to do, somewhere to go.”

— Cecelia Ahern

322. “She longs for him to be here, but knows it was she who walked away from him. It’s her fault he’s not here.”

— Cecelia Ahern

323. “Ever hear the saying that you need to be scared to be brave?”

— Cecelia Ahern

324. “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

325. “You always had me. I always had you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

326. “Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. It’s as though they already know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time...”

— Cecelia Ahern

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

— Cecelia Ahern

328. “People do whatever the hell they want to do at any age they fancy. Last month you were thirty-five. That means you’re five years from forty. Do you think that the day you reach forty you will be any different than you were at thirty-nine or forty-one for that matter? People create little ideas about ages so they can write silly self-help books, stick stupid comments in birthday cards, create names for internet chat rooms and look for excuses for crisis that are happening in their life.”

— Cecelia Ahern

329. “Whatever use double maths has in life is beyond me.”

— Cecelia Ahern

330. “I never believed in God. Not even at school when my priestly teacher drummed the fear and the guilt into us. I believed that he believed it, all right, but I thought he was mad. Delusional. I thought if somebody had to force you that much to believe in something then it wasn’t worth believing, that it wasn’t natural, you know?”

— Cecelia Ahern

331. “Enough time leaves us warm; when our time is gone, it leaves us cold.”

— Cecelia Ahern

332. “People didn’t always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.”

— Cecelia Ahern

333. “You can celebrate the love you had instead of hiding from it.”

— Cecelia Ahern

334. “The fear was there; it was there all the time, but it was merely disguised as something else for others to see.”

— Cecelia Ahern

335. “And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn’t make a good foundation for marriage.”

— Cecelia Ahern

336. “She felt disgusting and used and like she could never trust anyone ever again, and the last thing she wanted was food.”

— Cecelia Ahern

337. “It was comforting to know she wasn’t alone in feeling alone.”

— Cecelia Ahern

338. “And that’s what the problem was – Kitty had finally nailed it. In the six months of Etcetera stories that Kitty had pored over, she now realised she hadn’t written a single article that had been an idea of her own. Each story had been proposed by Pete or Cheryl or by somebody else who had enough on their own plate and was unable to write it. She hadn’t noticed it happening because she hadn’t minded.”

— Cecelia Ahern

339. “We want to control our deaths, our goodbye to the world, and if we can’t control is, we can at least control how we leave it behind.”

— Cecelia Ahern

340. “It’s not his job to mind her, or is it? Perhaps that’s a job he’s given himself, placing himself in a position of importance for his own ego.”

— Cecelia Ahern

341. “Wanting everything that’s mine to actually be mine and not at the mercy of others and their mistakes.”

— Cecelia Ahern

342. “The world went on, simple as that, and there was no bubble big enough to protect her.”

— Cecelia Ahern

343. “I’m sure it’s like you writing a story. If you don’t care, how can the reader?”

— Cecelia Ahern

344. “It doesn’t matter where you are in the world because it’s about where you are up here,′ she touched the side of her head lightly. ‘It’s about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination and memories. I’m happy up here,’ she tapped her temple again and smiled, ‘and because of that I’m happy up here too.’ She held out her arms and displayed the countryside around her...”

— Cecelia Ahern

345. “I mourned for a life that I’d lost.”

— Cecelia Ahern

346. “I nurtured with a view to eventually saying goodbye, he nurtured to hold on.”

— Cecelia Ahern

347. “It is time of which we do not have enough; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.”

— Cecelia Ahern

348. “So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it’s good to see you’ve got your wits about you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

349. “He’s a simple man only I don’t really believe that. Nobody who says as little as he does, is as simple as you’d think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you’re not talking, you’re thinking and he thinks a lot.”

— Cecelia Ahern

350. “It’s funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see.”

— Cecelia Ahern