Top 380 Cecelia Ahern Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “This wash’t how people spoke to each other. Where was the pretense that we liked each other, that we were both happy to be there, and we’d meet again?”

— Cecelia Ahern

354. “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

355. “I must stop feeling so deeply but I must not be numb; I must move on but I must not forget; I must be happy but not reject sadness; I must embrace but not cling; I must deal with but not dwell on; I must confront but not attack; I must eliminate but not annihilate; I must be gentle with myself but I must be strong.”

— Cecelia Ahern

356. “I should have been afraid, walking through a mountainside in the dark by myself. Instead I felt safe, surrounded by the songs of birds, engulfed by the scents of sweet moss and pine, and cocooned in a mist that contained a little bit of magic.”

— Cecelia Ahern

357. “Her mind. It was far stronger than any muscle in her body.”

— Cecelia Ahern

358. “They say it gets easier,’ he smiled. ‘So they say,’ Holly said grimly. ‘Apparently gallons of tea do the trick.”

— Cecelia Ahern

359. “You showed me that doing simple things are all you need as long as you’re doing them with someone who wants to be with you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

360. “Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing.”

— Cecelia Ahern

361. “You’re always sorry ‘after’ you do something. You never think about how they feel or how you’d feel ‘before’.”

— Cecelia Ahern

362. “You can’t know everything by looking at me. You can never know by looking at someone.”

— Cecelia Ahern

363. “Sometimes I wonder if love is enough, or if there are levels of love. And sometimes I wonder if he can see me, even when he’s looking right at me.”

— Cecelia Ahern

364. “I prefer this version of me, yet I became this way because I lost him. If I ever had the power to undo everything, I wouldn’t want to unravel who I’ve become.”

— Cecelia Ahern

365. “But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.”

— Cecelia Ahern

366. “I’m in competition with myself. Always have been. It’s up to me to be as good as I can be.”

— Cecelia Ahern

367. “Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves.”

— Cecelia Ahern

368. “Wildflower: Don’t let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It’s your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.”

— Cecelia Ahern

369. “Well, I’ll tell you one thing, you can give him all the help in the world, but unless he learns to fend for himself, it’ll be useless.”

— Cecelia Ahern

370. “Maybe you’re not difficult to live with at all, maybe you’re just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won’t settle for anything but the best.”

— Cecelia Ahern

371. “I experienced a great tragedy at a young age and I thought that was me done, I got it over and done with. In a world of infinite possibilities, I should have known there is no end to the loss that we can experience, but neither is there to the knowledge and growth that arises because of it and in spite of it.”

— Cecelia Ahern

372. “Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time than we hoped for. It’s sad, but it’s life. So you go to this ball, Holly and you embrace the fact that you had someone whom you loved and who loved you back.”

— Cecelia Ahern

373. “I don’t believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.”

— Cecelia Ahern

374. “So many things to be and not be; I am nothing, but I’m everything, yet I must, I must, I must.”

— Cecelia Ahern

375. “They say you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with, he says, glaring at me, nostrils flaring like a wolf. Doesn’t say a lot about the company you keep, does it. That’s one, he points in Paddy’s direction. I wonder who the other four losers are in your life.”

— Cecelia Ahern

376. “We don’t often remember how we meet, we mostly remember how we part.”

— Cecelia Ahern

377. “Art is like a light to me, illuminating the darkest corners of everything.”

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378. “If you think I’m going to let you take over my life, you’re wrong.”

— Cecelia Ahern

379. “But this is what happens when you come apart, the secret bits you knew about each other dissolve into nothing.”

— Cecelia Ahern

380. “To quote one of the most beautiful sentences that was ever said to me, “I don’t love you”“. He smiled, and feeling encouraged, I continued. “But I think that I easily could, and that I probably very quickly will, though I can’t promise anything. It could all very possibly end in years.”

— Cecelia Ahern

381. “Nothing can ever be the same when all the time we’re changing.”

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382. “May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul.”

— Cecelia Ahern

383. “Sometimes it would be easier to be a human if there weren’t other humans.”

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384. “I’m equally terrified by life and ecstatic to be living it at the same time.”

— Cecelia Ahern