Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

Your heart can break at any age.

Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths

Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.

Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing.

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

I can only assume that there's only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

The first day of the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don't feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn't bothered.