Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

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

Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what's going on

Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.