Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

I've learned that home isn't a place, it's a feeling.

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.

Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.

Life is funny isn't it? 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. And that's with following all the signposts

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

That's what life is about: People come and go.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

God leads you to it and takes you through it.

Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You....

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I'm missing something. I know that there's something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.