Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

Always just pleasant. Never overexcited. Never, in fact, excited at all. Just pleasant, which is simply another word for nice.

Love can soften people, I believe that. But in me, now, love riles up an anger, a red-hot rage that crawls on my skin, seeps into my blood and brings out the worst in me. That's why everyone I love is better off loving me from afar.

I don't believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.

As women, we dress to please ourselves, to hide our imperfections, to accentuate our best features. Our clothing is an extension of who we are, a reflection of what we are thinking and feeling.

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing every day, how can you expect the missing part to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

They say a story loses something with each telling. If that is the case, this story has lost nothing, for it's the first time it's been told.

And that's what the problem was – Kitty had finally nailed it. In the six months of Etcetera stories that Kitty had pored over, she now realised she hadn't written a single article that had been an idea of her own. Each story had been proposed by Pete or Cheryl or by somebody else who had enough on their own plate and was unable to write it. She hadn't noticed it happening because she hadn't minded.

Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive.

Te sam ve?eri nau?ila nešto važno. Ne trebaš baš sve pokušati sprije?iti. Katkad ti treba biti neugodno. Katkad trebaš biti ranjiv pred ljudima. Katkad je to nužno zato sto je tako?er dio puta prema novom dijelu tebe, prema sutrašnjem danu.

They say you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with, he says, glaring at me, nostrils flaring like a wolf. Doesn't say a lot about the company you keep, does it. That's one, he points in Paddy's direction. I wonder who the other four losers are in your life.

Well, I'll tell you one thing, you can give him all the help in the world, but unless he learns to fend for himself, it'll be useless.

You see, I never knew what I wanted to be -- I still don;t know. All I knew was that I was supposed to get married and have babies just like my mother did and my sisters did. I wanted to do that. I met your father and I was his wife, that is who I was. Then I had my children. And then I was a mother. That's who I was. A wife and a mother but I don't know if I was or if I am of any real value. You and the boys are all grown up, so what I am now?

He's a simple man only I don't really believe that. Nobody who says as little as he does, is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking, and he thinks a lot.

When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can't be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned

I try to focus, but I can't. I know why I'm here, and then I don't know why I'm here. I understand, then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I'd done, and then I'm glad I did.

man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson.

She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live. But what was the point in living when there was no life in it.

We need publicity that allows me to talk about the gift of giving, how precious it is, how special it can be, particularly in these times when people are really struggling. It's not about how expensive something is – as a nation we've stopped giving lavish gifts – it's actually about thinking about what to give someone, how it can lift them when they're down, how they can feel loved and important and special just by one simple gesture.

She told me that to seek the truth is not necessarily to go on a mission all guns blazing in order to reveal a lie, neither is it to be particularly ground-breaking – it is simply to get to the heart of what is real.

Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.

But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.

Age is only a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behavior.

Josh corre riesgos; es más valiente que yo. Siempre va un paso más allá aunque sabe que no debería. Pero lo hace igualmente y aprende. Pienso que los adultos tenemos mucho que aprender de eso. Quizá no deberíamos ser tan miedosos y sensatos cuando se trata de alcanzar nuestras metas.

Art is like a light to me, illuminating the darkest corners of everything.