Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

Sometomes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

Nothing is impossible, Alex. It was there all the time. I just wasn't reaching out far enough, that's all. Nothing is impossible. Not a bad statement to come from the pen (or rather keyboard!) of a cynic. Thank you for your faith in me, Alex. I would love to return that hug and kisses to you now! but then again, perhaps some things just might be beyond our reach after all.

What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal.

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

Write what's up there. Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those. Jesus? No, Bruce Springsteen.

Fairy tales are such evil stories for young children. Every time I'm in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man to come trotting into my life (on a horse of course, literally trotting himself...) Then you realize you don't want a long-haired posh-speaking man trotting into your life because he's the one who put you in the bloody mess in the first place.

And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.

The next best thing never last for too long

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.

The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realisation that you can't be all you wanted to be

To look back, to go back, is not to be weak. It is not to reopen wounds. It takes strength, it takes courage. It takes a person who is more in control of who they are to cast a discerning, non-judgmental eye over who they once were.

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

I've learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.

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.

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

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

I find that, usually, answers present themselves. They are not hidden under rocks or camouflaged among trees. Answers are right there, in front of our eyes. But if you haven't cause to look, then of course you will probably never find them.

And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room. It was practically our family pet.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.

Albert Einstein: 'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.'" He

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.

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

She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud. Having to take care of her sister's child had sent her love away and there had been no one since. She had learned not to lose control of her feelings again.