Quotes from Cecelia Ahern

Your heart can break at any age.

Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

Holly's theory about the army, Sharon explained. And what is it? Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don't live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn't shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

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

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.

If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.

Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn't know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn't quite know it all so much then.

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.

After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.

You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. [...] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.