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There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.
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Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he's a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he's a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he's someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.
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And nobody had told them that they were short on time.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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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.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I loved him, you know, but I have a theory about love. I think that, however good it is, some love isn't meant to be for ever.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Nobody who says as little as he does is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking, and he thinks . My mum and dad talked all the time. Talkers don't think much; their words drown out any possibility of hearing their subconscious asking,
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Cecelia Ahern |
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For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Empty words almost echo within themselves
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.
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hopes
positive
inspirational
options
wishing
hoping
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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
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love-rosie
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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'..
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escape
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flawed
relatable
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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
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Close your eyes and stare into the dark.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Twice we 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. But we got it all wrong. 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..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can do: 1) break down, lose hope, and refuse to go on while lying facedown on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2) laugh.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
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lessons
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I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. I want us to be best friends forever,
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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All I need is backup. He's the little angel that sits on my shoulder whispering in my ear, "You can do it!" It's funny. I'm thirty years old now and I still feel like a little girl. I'm still looking around to check and see what other people are doing to make sure I'm not completely different; I'm still looking around for help, hoping for a quick nudge and a whisper of advice. But I can't seem to be able to catch anybody's eye. Nobody else ..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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When I started school I thought that people in sixth class were so old and knowledgeable even though they were no older than twelve. When I reached twelve I reckoned the people in sixth year, at eighteen years of age, must have known it all. When I reached eighteen I thought that once I finished college then I would really be mature. At twenty-five I still hadn't made it to college, was still clueless and had a seven-year-old daughter. I wa..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so
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friendship
life
where-rainbows-end
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Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love.
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positive-thinking
love
cecelia-ahernt
philosphy-of-people
if-you-could-see-me-now
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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 fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too
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loneliness
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It occurs to me how close happiness and sadness are. So closely knitted together. Such a thin line, a thread-like divide that in the midst of emotions, it trembles, blurring the territory of exact opposites ... how quickly a moment of love was snapped away to a moment of hate ... Of how love and war stand upon the very same foundations. How, in my darkest moments, my most fearful times, when faced, became my bravest. When feeling at your we..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Things won't change unless you change you.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Things change so quickly. Just when you get used to something, zap! It changes. Just when you begin to understand someone, zap! They grow up. The same is happening with Katie. She changes every day; her face just becomes so much more grown-up every time I look at her. Sometimes I have to stop pretending I'm interested in what she's saying in order to realize that I actually am interested. We go shopping for clothes together and I take her a..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Life is hard, so what?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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You always had me. I always had you.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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It's not easy remembering the good times.
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memories
past
humor
love
remembered
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Chin up, don't smile, don't cry, don't fall, walk.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.
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love
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what's going on
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Cecelia Ahern |
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why they were taken away from you, but a reason to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit. And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better.
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