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From Alex To Rosie Subject Dreams Again, Rosie, you're just not stretching far enough. I'm right here. Always have been, always will be.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Good girls always come second.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Ruby: How nice for you all. How is the wonderfully helpful Ursula? Rosie: Wonderfully helpful. Yesterday she told me I had problems discussing my feelings. Ruby: And? Rosie: And I told her that made me feel angry and that she could go fuck herself. Ruby: Well expressed. Rosie: Thank you. I don't see where there was a problem, I successfully explained how I felt and she clearly understood what I meant. No problems . . .
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People don't know that they do that to people when they do the things they shouldn't. Hurtful things are roots,they spread ,branch out, creep under the surface touching other parts of the lives of those they hurt. It's never one mistake, it's never one moment, it becomes a series of moments, each moment growing roots and spurting in different directions. And over time, they become muddled like an old twisted tree, strangling itself and tyin..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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How often we wish we'd stayed on the same path
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cecelia ahern |
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It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There are no limits. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered. The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, that you just might have to settle a little bit less.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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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.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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La vida esta hecha de tiempo. Los dias se miden en horas, los salarios se miden en funcion de esas horas, nuestros conocimientos se miden en anos. Robamos unos minutos a nuestras jornadas para tomar un cafe. Volvemos corriendo a nuestros puestos, miramos el reloj, vivimos de cita en cita. Y, sin embargo, el tiempo termina agotandose y en el fondo de tu alma te preguntas si esos segundos, minutos, horas, dias, semanas, meses, anos y decadas ..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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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 around me seems to be looking around and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I'm the only person who is confused and concerned about the choices I've made and where I'm ..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart when that breaks it s completely silent. You would think as it s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some[...] But it s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen."
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Cecelia Ahern |
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All thoughts about myself now begin with perhaps .. because I'm having to think about myself in ways I never did before and I'm not sure if I'm right in my thinking about these things.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I feel now like I'm living in a goldfish bowl and all I can see and hear from every window in my home is you. You, you, you.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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It was the most perfect moment in my life. It was the last perfect moment in my life.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Am I OK? I'm lots of things. I'm lonely, I'm tired, I'm sad, I'm happy, I'm lucky, I'm unlucky; I'm a million different things every day of the week. But I suppose OK is one of them.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to see it,
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Fear drives us to do many things in our lives. For me, the fear of losing a loved one, and all those terrifying thoughts of what it's like to be left behind and feel alone, drove me to conceive
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Freedom of speech isn't something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they'll shout even louder.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realisation that you can't be all you wanted to be,
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Nothing is impossible, Alex. It was there all the time. I just wasn't reaching out far enough, that's all. Nothing is impossible. Not a bad statement to come from the pen (or rather keyboard!) of a cynic. Thank you for your faith in me, Alex. I would love to return that hug and kisses to you now! but then again, perhaps some things just might be beyond our reach after all.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Fairy tales are such evil stories for young children. Every time I'm in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man to come trotting into my life (on a horse of course, literally trotting himself...) Then you realize you don't want a long-haired posh-speaking man trotting into your life because he's the one who put you in the bloody mess in the first place.
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prince-charming
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Friends come in all different shapes and sizes... The important thing is not what we look like but the role we play in our best friend's life. Friends choose certain friends because that's the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they're the correct height, age or have the right hair colour. It's not always the case but often there's a reason why...
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes its easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.
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one-hundred-names
constance-dubois
kitty-logan
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Rosie: Sorry about that, Randy Andy here wouldn't let me leave the office. Ruby: Oh he is such a slave driver! You should complain to head office, get the asshole fired. Rosie: He is head office. Ruby: Oh yeah. Rosie: Well in all fairness Ruby, he may be a prick but we did just take a break an hour ago . . . and it was our third one in less than three hours . . . Ruby: You are turning into one of THEM! Rosie: I have a child to feed. Ruby: A..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Sometomes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Stars are like people,.. just because they appear to emerge from the same point doesn't mean that they do. This is an illusion of perspective created by distance. Not all families manage to hold it together,..Everyone moves in different directions. That we all emerge from the same point is a misconception; to travel in different directions is the very nature of every being and every existing thing.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Once again, I don't quite know where I'm headed, Steph. It seems that every few years I'm shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can;t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security. like so many people do. And I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I;m..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
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modesty
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Cecelia Ahern |
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And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room. It was practically our family pet.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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This story is one for which some people will have to suspend their belief. If it wasn't me and this wasn't happening to me, I would be one of those people. Many won't struggle to believe it, though, for their minds have been opened; unlocked by whatever kind of key causes people to believe. Those people are either born that way or, as babies, when their minds are like little buds, they are nurtured until their petals slowly open and prepare..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Nobody else around me seems to be looking around and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I'm the only person who is confused and concerned about the choices I've made and where I'm headed? Everywhere I look, I see people just getting on with it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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If you want to do something, you have to do it now. If you want to say something, you have to say it now. And more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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There's the person who you think you should be and there's the person who you really are. I've lost sense of both.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Ruby: You can put whatever name you like on it but at the end of the day a missed opportunity is a missed opportunity. But don't worry; I think there's a lesson to be learned in all this.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things
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