110+ Cecelia Ahern Quotes (Imaginative, Emotive And Quirky)

Cecilia Ahern is an Irish novelist who is best known for her debut novel P.S. I Love You. She has written several other novels, including Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, and The Year I Met You. She has also written several children's books and a collection of short stories.

Top 10 Cecelia Ahern Quotes

1. Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.
2. 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.
3. Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.
4. But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?
5. Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
6. what you don't know, you don't miss
7. sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.
8. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
9. you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye. P.S. i will always love you
10. Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Cecelia Ahern Short Quotes

• Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You.
• Empty words almost echo within themselves
• Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.
• Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
• To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.
• Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
• Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
• I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.
• You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
• Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

Cecelia Ahern Famous Quotes And Sayings

But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live. — Cecelia Ahern

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. — Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day. — Cecelia Ahern

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning. — Cecelia Ahern

We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair. — Cecelia Ahern

I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart. — Cecelia Ahern

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next. — Cecelia Ahern

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off. — Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again. — Cecelia Ahern

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel. — Cecelia Ahern

There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things. — Cecelia Ahern

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and that someone else would take care of everything. How easy life would be without having grown-up problems to worry about. And then she could grow up all over again. — Cecelia Ahern

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? — Cecelia Ahern

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical. — Cecelia Ahern

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

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything. — Cecelia Ahern

"What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'" — Cecelia Ahern

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight. — Cecelia Ahern

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid. — Cecelia Ahern

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

are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ? — Cecelia Ahern

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted — Cecelia Ahern

My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do. — Cecelia Ahern

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk. — Cecelia Ahern

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell — Cecelia Ahern

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

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. — Cecelia Ahern

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

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. — Cecelia Ahern

Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand. — Cecelia Ahern

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all. — Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense. — Cecelia Ahern

He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn't know or didn't care that you were in the room and if they ever did acknowledge your existence it was bizarrely score one to you, and twenty years later they'd tell you they'd always had a crush on you but never had the courage to say anything and you'd tell them, What? I didn't even think you liked me? and they'd say, Are you crazy? I just never knew what to say! — Cecelia Ahern

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something. — Cecelia Ahern

Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else. — Cecelia Ahern

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story. — Cecelia Ahern

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster. — Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time? — Cecelia Ahern

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying. — Cecelia Ahern

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance. — Cecelia Ahern

I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be. — Cecelia Ahern

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me. — Cecelia Ahern

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control. — Cecelia Ahern

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that. — Cecelia Ahern

More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are. — Cecelia Ahern

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

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love. — Cecelia Ahern

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

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake. — Cecelia Ahern

It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see. — Cecelia Ahern

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. — Cecelia Ahern

I have found that the many imbalances within our individual lives result in an overall more worldly balance. What I mean is that no matter how unfair I think something is, I need only look at the bigger picture to see how, in a way, it fits... however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. — Cecelia Ahern

And nobody had told them that they were short on time. — Cecelia Ahern

.. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another. — Cecelia Ahern

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants. — Cecelia Ahern

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect. — Cecelia Ahern

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope. — Cecelia Ahern

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees? — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds. — Cecelia Ahern

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall. — Cecelia Ahern

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life. — Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact. — Cecelia Ahern

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward. — Cecelia Ahern

Seeming and being are not one and the same. — Cecelia Ahern

Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned. — Cecelia Ahern

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

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. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. — Cecelia Ahern

Close your eyes and stare into the dark. — Cecelia Ahern

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. — Cecelia Ahern

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon. — Cecelia Ahern

Time cant be given. But it can be shared. — Cecelia Ahern

Life Lessons by Cecelia Ahern

1. Cecelia Ahern's work emphasizes the importance of resilience and hope in the face of adversity. Her stories often focus on the power of love and friendship to help us overcome difficult times.
2. Ahern's writing also reminds us of the importance of cherishing the moments we have with our loved ones, as life is unpredictable and fleeting.
3. Finally, her stories demonstrate the power of communication and understanding to help us connect with others and build meaningful relationships.