Cecelia Ahern quote: "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."

Miracles only grow where you plant them.
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But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.
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Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woma...
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sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to beg...
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What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientif...
CECELIA AHERN

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implan...
CECELIA AHERN

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

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's wh...
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We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but ...
CECELIA AHERN

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
CECELIA AHERN

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, p...
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On the other hand, she was a women with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to exper...
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When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatter...
CECELIA AHERN

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. Wh...
CECELIA AHERN

Nobody who says as little as he does is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, b...
CECELIA AHERN

There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time come...
CECELIA AHERN

Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than...
CECELIA AHERN

Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning,...
CECELIA AHERN

Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is a...
CECELIA AHERN

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

I think I wished for you all of my life.
CECELIA AHERN

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, pus...
CECELIA AHERN

You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you ...
CECELIA AHERN

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember,...
CECELIA AHERN

Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. ...
CECELIA AHERN

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I ha...
CECELIA AHERN

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a tru...
CECELIA AHERN

Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable...
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what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
CECELIA AHERN

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

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our kn...
CECELIA AHERN

Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.
CECELIA AHERN

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

Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it woul...
CECELIA AHERN

what you don't know, you don't miss
CECELIA AHERN

You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. [...
CECELIA AHERN

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
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At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listeni...
CECELIA AHERN

Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers...
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It’s not easy remembering the good times.
CECELIA AHERN

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect ag...
CECELIA AHERN

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should ...
CECELIA AHERN

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, ...
CECELIA AHERN

Una lezione ha un denominatore comune che ci lega l'uno all'altro come in una catena. In fondo alla ...
CECELIA AHERN

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly...
CECELIA AHERN

She grabbed all her clothes from her wardrobe and flung them across the room, screaming her head off...
CECELIA AHERN

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if t...
CECELIA AHERN

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually ...
CECELIA AHERN

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even...
CECELIA AHERN

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because ...
CECELIA AHERN

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you ...
CECELIA AHERN

There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magi...
CECELIA AHERN

...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...
CECELIA AHERN

Here's an idea, Rosie. Why don't you just tell Alex how you feel? Why don't you just finally ...
CECELIA AHERN

The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.
CECELIA AHERN

To the most inconsiderate asshole of a friend,
I’m writing you this letter because I know tha...
CECELIA AHERN

Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they st...
CECELIA AHERN

You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is t...
CECELIA AHERN

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

Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you ta...
CECELIA AHERN

Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why the...
CECELIA AHERN

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

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more...
CECELIA AHERN

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to ...
CECELIA AHERN

I'm a million different things every day of the week.
CECELIA AHERN

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always...
CECELIA AHERN

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rul...
CECELIA AHERN

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

Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had...
CECELIA AHERN

The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me ...
CECELIA AHERN

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.

Remember this.
CECELIA AHERN

Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.
CECELIA AHERN

I told you I'd find you.
CECELIA AHERN

But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometim...
CECELIA AHERN

Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our kn...
CECELIA AHERN

We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't real...
CECELIA AHERN

into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and i...
CECELIA AHERN

Das Meer war ein lebendiges Wesen, so unberechenbar wie ein großer Theaterschauspieler: es konnte r...
CECELIA AHERN

Appreciating your loved ones,” Raphie said, a little embarrassed at first. “Acknowledging all th...
CECELIA AHERN

man’s lesson is another man’s tale, but often, a man’s tale can be another’s lesson.
CECELIA AHERN

This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cor...
CECELIA AHERN

Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable...
CECELIA AHERN

This story is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover t...
CECELIA AHERN

People, like houses, hold their secrets. Sometimes the secrets inhabit them, and sometimes people in...
CECELIA AHERN

A man should never neglect his family for business.
CECELIA AHERN

So that makes time more precious, doesn’t it? More precious than money, more precious than anythin...
CECELIA AHERN

A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul.
CECELIA AHERN

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concen...
CECELIA AHERN

People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the jo...
CECELIA AHERN

Time can't be given. But it can be shared.
CECELIA AHERN

The next best thing never last for too long
CECELIA AHERN

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul.
CECELIA AHERN

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancin...
CECELIA AHERN

People who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things. Paths are so much clearer when...
CECELIA AHERN

This story is about people,secrets and time.About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who co...
CECELIA AHERN

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.
CECELIA AHERN

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.
CECELIA AHERN

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."

"Shouldn'...
CECELIA AHERN

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were mer...
CECELIA AHERN

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to u...
CECELIA AHERN

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given....
CECELIA AHERN

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

Time cant be given. But it can be shared.
CECELIA AHERN

He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were specia...
CECELIA AHERN

It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever ...
CECELIA AHERN

Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out,
just when you fi...
CECELIA AHERN

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think ...
CECELIA AHERN

I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from...
CECELIA AHERN

I’d live anywhere, - in one room, in the castle ruin right now – if it meant we could all just b...
CECELIA AHERN

And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, al...
CECELIA AHERN

This story is one for which some people will have to suspend their belief. If it wasn't me and this ...
CECELIA AHERN

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a ...
CECELIA AHERN

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itse...
CECELIA AHERN

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, ...
CECELIA AHERN

I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze...
CECELIA AHERN

Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, al...
CECELIA AHERN

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root...
CECELIA AHERN

I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’...
CECELIA AHERN

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You�...
CECELIA AHERN

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to ...
CECELIA AHERN

I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much...
CECELIA AHERN

I wonder if my watching him from the armchair is what it's like to be God, if there is a God. He sit...
CECELIA AHERN

They say a story loses something with each telling.
CECELIA AHERN

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life awa...
CECELIA AHERN

For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.
CECELIA AHERN

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
CECELIA AHERN

Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that make...
CECELIA AHERN

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

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?
CECELIA AHERN

Note to self:
Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.
CECELIA AHERN

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you ar...
CECELIA AHERN

After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfri...
CECELIA AHERN

Aim for something Rosie, I know you don’t want to hear it, but it will
help. Aim for what you...
CECELIA AHERN

You always had me. I always had you.
CECELIA AHERN

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
CECELIA AHERN

Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I wa...
CECELIA AHERN

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even th...
CECELIA AHERN

I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I...
CECELIA AHERN

Fairy tales are such evil stories for young children. Every time I'm in a mess I expect a long-haire...
CECELIA AHERN

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Some...
CECELIA AHERN

Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
CECELIA AHERN

So how long have you been together? Two months?'
'Five.'
'Five? Jesus, Steve, you might as...
CECELIA AHERN

My dear Rosie,

Unbeknownst to you I took this chance before, many, many years ago. You ne...
CECELIA AHERN

We have a long way to go to
being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale ...
CECELIA AHERN

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life...
CECELIA AHERN

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice
we got it wrong. I neede...
CECELIA AHERN

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know
that there’s somethi...
CECELIA AHERN

How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
CECELIA AHERN

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my character...
CECELIA AHERN

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
CECELIA AHERN

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy....
CECELIA AHERN

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that...
CECELIA AHERN

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
CECELIA AHERN

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
CECELIA AHERN

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others...
CECELIA AHERN

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the ...
CECELIA AHERN

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps t...
CECELIA AHERN

Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do...
CECELIA AHERN

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, ...
CECELIA AHERN

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to...
CECELIA AHERN

After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more atte...
CECELIA AHERN

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where yo...
CECELIA AHERN

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the sta...
CECELIA AHERN

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird s...
CECELIA AHERN

Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. T...
CECELIA AHERN

Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.
CECELIA AHERN

Home isn't a place, its a feeling
CECELIA AHERN

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I...
CECELIA AHERN

1. You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fig...
CECELIA RODRIGUEZ

Do not be in a hurry; depend upon it, the right Man will come at last; you will in the course of the...
CECELIA RODRIGUEZ

We spend so much time in the office that our co-workers become our extended family. The key is to re...
CECELIA DWYER

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.
JUNE AHERN

Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.
JUNE AHERN

Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.
BILL AHERN

Officials offered to take four percentage points off that,
BILL AHERN

Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.
BILL AHERN

Even though there is an element of fairness in that proposal, we wouldn't recommend it. It sets a da...
BILL AHERN

It shows that the institutions are working,
BERTIE AHERN

the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.
BERTIE AHERN

This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don...
BERTIE AHERN

The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. Th...
BERTIE AHERN

It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible.
BERTIE AHERN

A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Othe...
BERTIE AHERN

I spoke to Jose Manuel last night and was happy to share this information with him. It is a great tr...
BERTIE AHERN

very significant and an historic statement.
BERTIE AHERN

It is vital that we move forward together in the coming days as the transfer of sovereignty approach...
BERTIE AHERN

was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement i...
BERTIE AHERN

In addition to the physical contact, it surprised us to find that these immune cells also have machi...
GERARD AHERN

The novelty is that we reveal a potential communication, involving the transmitter serotonin, betwee...
GERARD AHERN

At this point we just don't know how these drugs might affect immunity, so we really need to clarify...
GERARD AHERN

The wider health implication is that commonly used SSRI antidepressants, which target the uptake of ...
GERARD AHERN

We hope future studies will reveal any potential positive or negative effects. We plan to use severa...
GERARD AHERN

Radiation portal monitors are...allowing highly trained [Customers and Border Protection] officers t...
JAYSON AHERN

We're pleased when a test like this is able to demonstrate the efficacy of our technology.
JAYSON AHERN

We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions.
JAYSON AHERN

We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions wi...
JAYSON AHERN

I was the individual who cleared on this process within Customs and Border Protection and reviewed a...
JAYSON AHERN

Coach sat us down after our bad start and told us we needed to come together as a team.
JOE AHERN

This is a fantastic breakthrough advertising and marketing campaign that is sure to be a great succe...
JOE AHERN

Sweeping UA was when it all clicked. We started playing together, which helped us put the puck in th...
JOE AHERN

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.

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