Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

Distance is all I can give someone I can't truly fathom.

predictably unpredictable

people who constantly looked over their shoulders often bumped

Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive. And although it may be human nature to dwell, like many natural things it's senseless, senseless to allow a single thought to inhabit a mind because thoughts are like guests or fair-weather friends.

Anyway, my point is (I know, I know, there is one), I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. I want us to be best friends forever, Alex.

He didn't know that he couldn't tell life when he was ready to learn, but that life would teach him when it was good and ready.

When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line.

Zeit kann man nicht verschenken. Aber wir können sie miteinander teilen.

Just when you think you've got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you're heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you're lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction.

Dem Meer wohnt ein Zauber inne. Menschen fühlten sich unwiderstehlich zu ihm hingezogen, wollten am Meer leben, im Meer schwimmen, spielen, es anschauen.

People, like houses, hold their secrets. Sometimes the secrets inhabit them, and sometimes people inhabit their secrets.

I was right. And right wins every time.

Truth and time always work alongside each other.

Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.

Statt Bündel mit ihren wenigen Habseligkeiten trugen die Menschen jetzt Pappbecher mit Starbucks-Kaffee in der einen und Aktenzeichen in der anderen Hand.

Fui cavando bajo las capas de complejidades que habíamos creado con los años de nuestra relación. ¿Qué era, me preguntaba, lo que entonces teníamos que cupiera reavivar? ¿Qué podía hacer a dos personas prometerse mutuamente pasar juntos cada día del resto de sus vidas?

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings.

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour." ? Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

Arme Leute können nicht wählerisch sein, oder? Bedeutet das auch, wer wählerisch ist, kann nicht arm sein?

Solange du auf dieser Welt bist, ist dein Leben auch da. ... Du bist dieses Leben, es ist immer bei dir, um dich zu unterstützen, es spornt dich an, es jubelt dir zu, selbst wenn du denkst, du kannst nicht mehr. ... Wir werden füreinander da sein bis zum letzten Augenblick, und dann werden wir uns ansehen und sagen: >>Danke, dass du bis zum Schluss bei mir geblieben bist.<<

You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you're doing, where you are, who you're with and if you're OK.

Mamá adoraba a toda suerte de personas, pero sobre todo le gustaban las personas que tenían espíritu y energía. Las que vivían e irradiaban vitalidad.

But it's a beautiful summer and it doesn't feel quite right. The atmosphere doesn't suit the mood, there's the sound of children's laughter floating up from the beach down below, there are birds singing and dancing around the sky, swooping low and catching their fresh meals from the sea. It doesn't feel right to love the world and see such brightness when something so awful has happened.

Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home."