Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

And I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I'm doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think I'm where I want to be now.

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

Mira alla luna. Anche se la manchi, rimarrai sempre tra le stelle.

People's name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.

Some things are better left the way they are

Our thoughts are ever-changing, because we put them there. Once you grasp the difference between suicidal thoughts and your feelings, you will start to understand your emotions. You can separate your suicidal thoughts from your feelings.

Every table has a story

Pero la mayoría de las veces, las decisiones fáciles son las erróneas y e ocasiones sentimos que vamos hacia atrás cuando en realidad estamos avanzando.

Sé paciente y resiste; algún día este dolor te será útil.

Lo cotidiano, lo ordinario, lo mundano es lo que mantiene el motor en marcha. Qué extraordinario es lo ordinario en realidad, una herramienta que todos usamos para seguir adelante, una pauta para la cordura.

Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up)

She wished all her memories could be of the good times, but the bad times kept coming back to haunt her.

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

Forty-three years old, he is handsome and he knows it, but it's not a view that is held with arrogance. His opinion on his looks are merely understood with the same logic he applies to tasting a fine wine. The grape was merely grown in the right place, under the right conditions. Some degree of nurturing and love mixed with later moments of being completely trampled on and walked all over.

I cant' believe Doris's hair is real too.' 'All but the colour. ...

It was comforting to know she wasn't alone in feeling alone.

Desde luego no vivimos un matrimonio de cuento de hadas, no me ducha con pétalos de rosa ni me lleva fines de semana a París, pero cuando me corto el pelo se da cuenta. Cuando me arreglo para salir me hace un cumplido. Cuando lloro, me seca las lágrimas. ¿Y quién necesita París cuando te pueden dar un abrazo?

You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.

How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.

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.

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white. Remember this.

sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.

Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn't want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants to bring it to the hospital himself, survey the wards and present it to someone special, for it's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a very long time.