“Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. ”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“...God leads you to it and takes you through it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You....”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“She was a woman who made mistakes, who sometimes cried on a Monday morning or at night alone in bed. She was a woman who often became bored with her life and found it hard to get up for work in the morning. She was a woman who more often than not had a bad hair day, who looked in the mirror and wondered why she couldn't just drag herself to the gym more often; she was a woman who sometimes questioned what reason had she to live on this planet. She was a woman who sometimes just got things wrong.
On the other hand, she was a woman with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“On the other hand, she was a women with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories. Whether it happened in ten months or ten years, Holly would obey Gerry's final message. Whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart and follow where it led.
In the meantime, she would just live.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“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, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“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, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Seeming and being are not one and the same.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“And nobody had told them that they were short on time.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“But Holly, nobody’s life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn’t be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“what a luxury it was for people to be
able to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“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 than we hoped for. It's sad, but it's life. So you go to this ball, Holly and you embrace the fact that you had someone whom you loved and who loved you back.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from P.S. I Love You
“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, quote from P.S. I Love You
“Yes, I love your eyes—they are black and deep and almond-shaped but I see the kindness in those eyes I have never seen before,”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from Our Impossible Love
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
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"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
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"But they used to take morphia and cocaine."
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"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
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"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
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"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
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"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
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"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
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"Stability was practically assured.”
― Aldous Huxley, quote from Uljas uusi maailma
“Or maybe I’m just a reckless fool, the way I was when I once jumped eighty feet off Foster Falls, near Sequatchie, Tennessee, or went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean during a hurricane. You could say—and some have—that I have a death wish. Not sure. I believe it’s more accurate to say I have a risk wish, somehow clinging to the notion that achieving these audacious feats will somehow make me worthy, make me special, as if I’d taken some magical, esteem-enhancing drug.”
― quote from Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
“No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.”
― John Burnside, quote from The Dumb House
“His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of the old joke, Failed In London Try Hong Kong. It was said that he had fled the London Bar, very young, very poor, on a sudden whim just after the War, and had done magnificently well in Hong Kong from the start. Being a modest man, they said, he had called himself a parvenu, a fraud, a carefree spirit.
Filth in fact was no great maker of jokes, was not at all modest about his work and seldom, except in great extremity, went in for whims. He was loved, however, admired, laughed at kindly and still much discussed many years after retirement.”
― Jane Gardam, quote from Old Filth
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