Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

P.S. Volim te Holi, i znam da me voliš. Nisu ti potrebne moje stvari da bi me se se?ala, nisu ti potrebne kao dokaz da sam postojao ili da još postojim u tvojoj glavi. Nije ti potrebno da nosiš moj džemper da bi me osetila oko sebe; ve? sam tu...moje ruke te uvek grle.

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.

Nothing can ever be the same when all the time we're changing.

I nurtured with a view to eventually saying goodbye, he nurtured to hold on.

People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell.

the thing about lessons: you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

People do whatever the hell they want to do at any age they fancy. Last month you were thirty-five. That means you're five years from forty. Do you think that the day you reach forty you will be any different than you were at thirty-nine or forty-one for that matter? People create little ideas about ages so they can write silly self-help books, stick stupid comments in birthday cards, create names for internet chat rooms and look for excuses for crisis that are happening in their life.

Each second is rather torturous, as though it will never move on, and as though it will never get any easier, and yet when I look back on it, look where we are. Two weeks on. And I'm doing it. And I still believe I simply cannot.

When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.

Sometimes you see everything so clearly and other times you can't even see yourself, but then, isn't that all of us?

Well that's the problem with paradise—nothing attracts a serpent quite like

no matter where you are, you always need a best friend

I don't think she liked being called a slut, I don't know why… some women are just funny like that.

Oh, it's called, em...' Kate thinks, 'I can't remember what it's called.' 'You're the same as me,' Dad says to her. 'You've got CRAFT too.' 'What's that?' 'Can't. Remember. A. Fuc-

When a member of the family leaves or dies, it changes the dynamics of a family. People move and shift, take up places they either wanted to have or are forced into roles they never wanted. It happens without anybody noticing, but it's shifting all the time.

FatherMichael: OK we should get on with this; I don't want to be late for my 2 o'clock. First I have to ask, is there anyone in here who thinks there is any reason why these two should not be married? LonelyLady: Yes. SureOne: I could give more than one reason. Buttercup: Hell yes. SoOverHim: DON'T DO IT!

So many things to be and not be; I am nothing, but I'm everything, yet I must, I must, I must.

You can celebrate the love you had instead of hiding from it.

there are some people in the world that don't hug you all the time or play games but they still love you. They just don't know how to say it.

I'm equally terrified by life and ecstatic to be living it at the same time.

And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could.

that's the problem with paradise—nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.

The world went on, simple as that, and there was no bubble big enough to protect her.

For him life was all full of opportunities, and I don't think that was necessarily a bad thing, but I think he wanted to grab them for all the wrong reasons. He wasn't passionate about art, he didn't care about lawyers helping people, he didn't even care about my singing voice. It was all for more money. And so I suppose it was fitting that it was the loss of all his money that killed him in the end. The pills and the whiskey were just the nails in the coffin.