Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

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. It's sad, but it's life.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

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.

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

Time cant be given. But it can be shared.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

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

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

And nobody had told them that they were short on time.

How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. [...] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.

So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

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.

Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.