Cecelia Ahern Quotes

“We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

“Rosie,

I'm returning to Boston tomorrow but before I go I wanted to write this letter to you. All the thoughts and feelings that have been bubbling up inside me are finally overflowing from this pen and I'm leaving this letter for you so that you don't feel that I'm putting you under any great pressure. I understand that you will need to take your time trying to decide on what I am about to say.
I no what's going on, Rosie. You're my best friend and I can see the sadness in your eyes. I no that Greg isn't away working for the weekend. You never could lie to me; you were always terrible at it. Your eyes betray you time and time again. Don't pretend that everything is perfect because I see it isn't. I see that Greg is a selfish man who has absolutely no idea just how lucky he is and it makes me sick.
He is the luckiest man in the world to have you, Rosie, but he doesn't deserve you and you deserve far better. You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you're doing, where you are, who you're with and if you're OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and who can protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who can make you happy, really happy, dancing-on-air happy. Someone who should have taken the chance to be with you years ago instead of becoming scared and being too afraid to try.
I am not scared any more, Rosie. I am not afraid to try. I no what the feeling was at your wedding - it was jealousy. My heart broke when I saw the woman I love turning away from me to walk down the aisle with another man, a man she planned to spend the rest of her life with. It was like a prison sentence for me - years stretching ahead without me being able to tell you how I feel or hold you how I wanted to.
Twice we've 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.
I should never have let your lips leave mine all those years ago in Boston. I should never have pulled away. I should never have panicked. I should never have wasted all those years without you. Give me a chance to make them up to you. I love you, Rosie, and I want to be with you and Katie and Josh. Always.
Please think about it. Don't waste your time on Greg. This is our opportunity. Let's stop being afraid and take the chance. I promise I'll make you happy.

All my love,
Alex”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“My dear Rosie,

Unbeknownst to you I took this chance before, many, many years ago. You never received that letter and I'm glad because my feelings since then have changed dramatically. They have intensified with every passing day.
I'll get straight to the point because if I don't say what I have to say now, I fear it will never be said. And I need to say it.
Today I love you more than ever; I want you more than ever. I'm a man of fifty years of age coming to you, feeling like a teenager in love, asking you to give me a chance and love me back.
Rosie Dunne, I love you with all my heart. I have always loved you, even when I was seven years old and I lied about falling asleep on Santa watch, when I was ten years old and didn't invite you to my birthday party, when I was eighteen and had to move away, even on my wedding days, on your wedding day, on christenings, birthdays and when we fought. I loved you through it all. Make me the happiest man on this earth by being with me.
Please reply to me.

All my love,
Alex”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“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, The Time of My Life

“To Rosie
You wrote that card didn't you?
From Alex

To Alex
What card?
From Rosie

To Rosie
Very funny. I no it was you.
From Alex

To Alex
I really don't know what you're talking about. Why would I send you a Valentine's card?
From Rosie

To Rosie
Ha ha! How did you no it was a Valentine's Card! The only way you could no is if you sent it. You love me, you want to marry me.
From Alex”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“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, The Book of Tomorrow

“Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

“Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

“It’s home, isn’t it. The seemingly invisible things that go right to your soul.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

“When you’re happy, even the things you hate can become the things you love.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. It means the people you spend the most time with shape who you are.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

“I don’t correct him, I don’t have the energy to keep soothing his ego and unravelling knotted sensitivities.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

“I mean, why else would you be looking for motivational quotes. You want to be guided.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

“After I’ve pressed the snooze button, I just lie there. I can’t move. I don’t want to move. My head is heavy and my body is weary. I’m physically and mentally drained. I want to stay in bed all day. I want to hide from the world. I want it to leave me alone. I’m trying, I really am, to get my shit together.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

“Are you okay. Three little words. When is the last time somebody asked me that. I can’t remember.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

“You’re the last person in the world I’d want to hurt.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Freckles

“Mourners are silent but their pain is not. The wound may be internal, but you can hear it, you can see it, you can feel it. Heartbreak is carried around bodies like an invisible cloak; it adds a load, it dims eyes, it slows strides.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Maybe that’s why people come to graveyards. For more goodbyes.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“You didn’t do anything wrong, things happened, and it’s not your fault.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“But they will remember you. They’ll remember you every second of every day. They won’t be able to stop remembering you. Everything they say, everything they smell, taste, hear, absolutely everything in their lives is linked to you. In a way, you will haunt them. You will be constantly in their thoughts even when they don’t want you there, because they’ll need you gone so that they can get through, and then there are days when they’ll need you there in order for them to get through.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“When he died, a piece of me did die, but a part of me was born too.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“People can surprise you when you suffer through grief. It’s not true that you discover who your friends are, but it’s true to say that their characters are revealed.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Everyone seems to be afraid you’ll lose yourself, but you should consider it being him you lose as a result of doing it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Love is a tenuous, rarefied thing. Something to be prized and cherished, displayed for all to see, not hidden away in a cupboard, or to feel ashamed of.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Look, it’s fine with me. She’s your daughter, I’m happy for you that this is happening, I know it’s important to you. as long as you know what you’re getting yourself into.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“He leaves the flat and I don’t see him for two days.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“You can only lose what you cling to.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“I needed to come and go as I pleased without any questions being asked, especially ones about my sanity. I wanted to feel free.”
― Cecelia Ahern, How to Fall in Love

“It's too complicated for me to explain, but let's just say it involves years and years of family shit and I'm smack bang in the middle of it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, How to Fall in Love

“I need to get away. Get my head together. Everything has been turned upside down, I can barely think straight.”
― Cecelia Ahern, How to Fall in Love