“But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“We see being Flawed as a strength, Celestine. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you’re never the wiser. These so-called perfect leaders we have now have never made a mistake. How can they have learned what’s right and wrong, how could they have learned anything about themselves? About what they feel comfortable doing, about what they feel is beyond the scope of their character? The more mistake you have made, the more you have learned.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“I told you I'd find you.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Freedom of speech isn’t something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they’ll shout even louder.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you’re never the wiser. These”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“It was the most perfect moment in my life.
It was the last perfect moment in my life.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Albert Einstein: ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’” He”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“The trouble with being punctual is that there’s nobody there to see it,”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“I’ve learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Mary May: Dr. Smith says nothing's broken.
Celestine: No. If you don't count my heart, my pride and my complete belief in humanity.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it’s good to see you’ve got your wits about you.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“...sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“My eyes move from side to side. I try to focus but I can't. I know why I'm here and I don't know why I'm here. I understand, and then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I did, and then I'm glad I did. I want to scream, but I don't.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“When you see something, it can’t be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Forget the old man,” she says sternly, so coldly, so devoid of all the love that I know her to have, that I don’t recognize her, and for that I don’t recognize the world. They are my roots, my foundations, and they sit before me now uprooted and saying things I never thought they’d say. “You will not allow a Flawed to ruin your life,” she says, and her voice cracks.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“NEVER TRUST A man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man’s home. Not”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“I’ve learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It’s a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“I try to focus, but I can't. I know why I'm here, and then I don't know why I'm here. I understand, then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I'd done, and then I'm glad I did.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“We see being Flawed as a strength. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you're never the wiser.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
“Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.” ”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from Flawed
Cecelia Ahern
Born place: in Dublin, Ireland
Born date September 30, 1981
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“A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.”
― David McCullough, quote from The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
“And she knew this silent dance between them would be decided tonight, one way or the other. Either she tore down every one of her defenses and accepted his claim to the soul, or she walked away. Except she didn’t think the latter was an option.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Tangle of Need
“Puede que suene estúpido si digo que su apariencia era de otro mundo, pero es que ella era de otro mundo. Peor aún, suena presuntuoso, ¿no es cierto? Presupone que sé todo lo que es de este mundo, y por ello puedo reconocer cualquier cosa que no lo sea. Por supuesto, no es así. Pero ésa es la impresión que ella dejó en mí.t”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, quote from The Drowning Girl
“He seemed to be doing his best to marry into a family of pronounced loonies, and how the deuce he thought he was going to support even a mentally afflicted wife on nothing a year beat me. Old Bittlesham was bound to knock off his allowance if he did anything of the sort and, with a fellow like young Bingo, if you knocked off his allowance, you might just as well hit him on the head with an axe and make a clean job of it.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from The Inimitable Jeeves
“You say ‘love’ too easily, Kepler."
“No, not really–please don’t call me that. The idea that love has to be a blazing romantic thing of monogamous stability is innately ludicrous. You loved your parents, perhaps, because they were the warmth you could flee to. You loved your first childhood crush with a passion that made your lips tingle, your flesh grow light in their presence. You loved your wife with the steadiness of an ocean against the shore; your lover with the blaze of a shooting star, your best friend with the confidence of a mountain. Love is a many-splendoured thing, as the old song says.”
― Claire North, quote from Touch
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