Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

I wish the world was filled with people like you, do you know that?

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life! So you go to this ball, Holly, and you embrace the fact that you had someone whom you loved and who loved you back.

I'd been holding my breath all that time and as soon as she turned, I let it out. My heart twisted again and for a moment I panicked. I wanted to call her back, take it back. I wanted to go to Blake, take him back. Live the way we had always lived together. But then I remembered, habit.

Katie: 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. Why don't you talk to him?

She was nicknamed The Graveyard. Any secret, any piece of confidential information, personal or otherwise, that went in never, ever came back out. You knew you were safe; you knew you would never be judged or, if you were it would be silently, so you'd never know.

But I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's okay to feel like this.

While you were trying to make Maria fall in love with me, and make me fall in love with life, I fell in love with you.

Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father's advice when I couldn't sleep as a little girl.

Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they're around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day-nothing-they're gone

Kad kažu da je nešto duga pri?a, ljudi obi?no žele re?i da je pri?a kratka, ali toliko glupa da ju se stide ispri?ati.

I helped you help me, you helped me to help you, that's the way it must be or the very idea of help would be obsolete. I always thought that being helped was a loss of control, but you must allow someone to help you, you must want someone to help you, and only then can the act begin.

Hate is a very strong word, Emelda. You don't hate—you dislike.

Soul mates have a way of finding their way to each other.

I was seventeen when I fell in love with the beast named Charlie. "Fell" is the appropriate word because it was indeed my downfall.

Ljudi za koje sam živjela nisu ni znali da postojim, a ja nisam priznavala postojanje ljudi koji su živjeli za mene.

It was the day I was going to take hold of my life. I would once and for all take back what was rightfully mine: my freedom, my dignity and my pride.

When I had got dressed that morning I had felt beautiful and ready to take on the world. Now I felt like the little girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that blew up like a blueberry and rolled off. The more they all stared at me, the more my confidence crumbled.

There's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't want to leave the dark behind.

U trenutcima kad život dotakne dno, možeš u?initi samo dvije stvari: 1) slomiti se, izgubiti nadu i odbiti po?i dalje te ostati ležati potrbuške na tlu mlate?i šakama i nogama ili 2) smijati se. - Mjesto zvano Ovdje

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

I needed someone to tell me that I wasn't as useless as everyone else was making me feel.

I was tired of being used and walked all over by the people who were supposed to love me.

There was a difference within me today. I didn't care what his problem was. I didn't care if I had done something to annoy him. This time I knew it wasn't my fault. It had never been my fault.

I've learned that the best revenge is finding happiness again.