Cecelia Ahern Quotes - Page 8

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• Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Doe, Alex

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

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  Running, Ordinary, Tools

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• they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

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  Worry, Sanity

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• I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Writing, Mystery

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• Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

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  Fall, Rivers, Luck

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• There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

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  House, Soul, Grew Up

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “PS, I love you”

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• We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.

  Cecelia Ahern

  People, Feelings, Needs

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• Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

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  Important, Being The Best, States

  Cecelia Ahern (2008). “The Gift”, HarperCollins UK

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• Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

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  Jesus, Writing, Men

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Believe, Science

  Cecelia Ahern (2008). “The Gift”, HarperCollins UK

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• I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

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  Writing, Creative, Feelings

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• 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.

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  Simple, Two, People

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• 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.

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  Two, Differences, Looks

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• At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.

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  Lying, Two, Laughing

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• Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

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  Walks

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• 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.

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  Eye, Sight, People

  Cecelia Ahern (2009). “There's No Place Like Here”, Hyperion

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• Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.

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  Daughter, Waiting, Machines

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• Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.

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  Book, Events, Germany

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• I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

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  Dad, Appreciate, Want

  Cecelia Ahern (2009). “The Book of Tomorrow”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.

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  Wise, Children, Husband

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.

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  Lost Everything, Lost, Havens

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• Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.

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  Heart, Order, Class

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “One Hundred Names”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Known

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• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

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  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

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  People, Want, Facts

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “One Hundred Names”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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