Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

Whatever use double maths has in life is beyond me.

sometimes when people are involved, business has to stop being business and the human must win.

To quote one of the most beautiful sentences that was ever said to me, I don't love you. He smiled, and feeling encouraged, I continued. But I think that I easily could, and that I probably very quickly will, though I can't promise anything. It could all very possibly end in years.

My friends' hugs are longer and tighter; consist of extra squeezes and pats, which alternate between a circular rubbing motion and a light pitter-pattering on the back, both of which I find surprisingly comforting.

The moon made me do it.

I've learned that home is not a place, it's a feeling. I can make the flat look as pretty as I can, put as many flower boxes on the window sill as I want, put a welcome mat outside the front door, hang a Home Sweet Home sign over the fireplace, and take to wearing aprons and baking cookies, but the truth is that I know I don't want to stay here forever.

Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves.

i keep myself busy with things to do, but everytime i pause i still think of you..

Why do bad things happen to good people? Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time.

Humans possess insatiable longings for wealth, status, and power, but are hungry, most of all, for love.

I experienced a great tragedy at a young age and I thought that was me done, I got it over and done with. In a world of infinite possibilities, I should have known there is no end to the loss that we can experience, but neither is there to the knowledge and growth that arises because of it and in spite of it.

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 crises that are happening in their life.

This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time.

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear. But if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? Often that is when I've done my best work, because I have embraced the fear and challenged myself.

you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do.

People didn't always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.

I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader?

Apart from them, Kitty had never been able to keep friends, not because she was disloyal in any way, she just felt that she hadn't connected with anyone deeply since her school friends and so it was easy to drift away as life moved on, as college finished and as she found new jobs and created new friendships that lasted as long as the jobs had.

They say it gets easier,' he smiled. 'So they say,' Holly said grimly. 'Apparently gallons of tea do the trick.

Though when she thought of it after, it was rather unprofessional behaviour, but sometimes when people are involved, business has to stop being business and the human must win. However, Kitty couldn't ignore the underlying truth that they both hung on to that hug for a little too long.

What was it, I wondered, that we had then that we could revive now?

I never believed in God. Not even at school when my priestly teacher drummed the fear and the guilt into us. I believed that he believed it, all right, but I thought he was mad. Delusional. I thought if somebody had to force you that much to believe in something then it wasn't worth believing, that it wasn't natural, you know?

Every heart has a story to tell.