Quotes from cecilia ahern

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase Everything happens for a reason, and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.

When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table breaks, or a picture fall of the wall, it makes noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent... and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.

Life is funny isn't it? Just when you think you've got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you're heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you're lost. It is easy to lose your way, to lose direction.

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

There aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

I think that most people go to 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. Its as though they 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.

Memories were fine, but you couldn't touch them. They were never exactly as the moment had been, & they faded w/ time

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.

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.

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.

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.

Svi se katkad izgubimo, katkad svojevoljno, a katkad zbog silnica nad kojima nemamo nadzora. Kad nau?imo ono što naša duša treba nau?iti, ukaže nam se put. Katkad vidimo put, ali protiv svoje volje bauljamo dalje i dublje. Strah, srdžba ili tuga prije?e nam put natrag. Katkad nam je draže biti izgubljen, katkad je tako lakše. A katkad sami prona?emo izlaz. Bilo kako bilo, svaki put na koncu budemo prona?eni - Mjesto zvano Ovdje

And older people were like babies; something about their demeanour made you love them despite their ignorant selfish personalities.

A helping hand can come from the most unlikely of places

Maybe love is thinking that everytime your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight. - Tamara Goodwin

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

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are.

Silence can be as threatening as words.