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Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist born on September 30, 1981. Her works are known for their warmth, humor, and profound emotional depth, which have won her a wide fan base.

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“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.”

Feels Sometimes Moving Easy Decision Moving Forward Ease Wrong Decision

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“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.”

Way Needs Believe Soul Sometimes Choices Found Lost Force Path Sadness Easier Deeper Dues Despite Wander Preventing

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.”

Needs Sometimes Helping Together Glue

Author: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.”

Looks Littles Persons Sometimes Fall Special Mirrors Tired Average Mediums Overwhelmed Falling Apart Spectacular Average Person

Author:Cecelia Ahern

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

Soul Sometimes Hate Lines Fine Breaths Love Hate Love And Hate Fine Lines

Book:There's No Place Like Here

Source: There's No Place Like Here

“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.”

Looks Two Sometimes Differences

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“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.”

People Knows Needs Made Said Sometimes Enough Feelings Felt Understood Arrangements

Author: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.”

People Sometimes Enough Eye Loses Attention Missing Sight

Book:There's No Place Like Here

Source: There's No Place Like Here

“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.”

People Sometimes Matter Eye

Book:There's No Place Like Here

Source: There's No Place Like Here

“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”

Long Sometimes Given Taken Wonderful

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.”

People Want Firsts Sometimes Helping Hands Felt Offers Understood Let Me Sorry Occasions Frustration Realised Helping Hand Pushed Away

Book:The Book of Tomorrow

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“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.”

People Feels Trying Sometimes Next Fronts Happenings Vulnerable Supposed To Be Awkward Next Day

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You.”

Sometimes Left One Thing Love You

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow”

Mind Sometimes Can Do Unusual Routes Unusual Things

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.”

Needs Ideas Sometimes Shows No Idea Smallest Clue

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.”

Two Sometimes Lost Grows Tree Sea Grew Beach Sand Survived Coastline Lost Things

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core”

Giving Sometimes Order Who You Are Core

Book:Cecelia Ahern 2-Book Gift Collection: The Gift, Thanks for the Memories

Source: Cecelia Ahern 2-Book Gift Collection: The Gift, Thanks for the Memories

“Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers”

Sometimes Numbers Wrong Number

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.”

Heart Sometimes Beautiful Impossible Prove Perfection Tasks Ugly Setting Settings Something Beautiful Ugly Things Beautiful Inside

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.”

Mind Sometimes Done Moments Fall Falling In Love Fleeing Save A Life

Author: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.'"”

People Needs Littles Sometimes Courses Forget Love You College Gratitude Lessons Degrees Hundred These Days Analysis Graduates Time Love Sometimes Love College Courses

Author:Cecelia Ahern

About the Author

Born: September 30, 1981
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 311

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