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How can a place be a home if no one wants you there? This is not a home.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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What is she doing in this world? Where is she going? She knows she has so much further to go than the distance she has come.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She was being a jealous, bitter and incredibly selfish friend, she knew that, but Holly needed to be selfish these days in order to survive. She
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Why can't people just be really good at something? Why do they have to be the best at something?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I can go an entire day without any socialisation, without a conversation with anyone. I wonder sometimes if I'm invisible. I feel like the old men and women who used to bother me by engaging in unnecessary chit-chat with the cashiers while I was stuck behind them, in a hurry, wanting to get on to the next place. When you don't have a next place to go to, time slows down enormously. I feel myself noticing other people more, catching more eye..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She longs for him to be here, but knows it was she who walked away from him. It's her fault he's not here.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Sometimes you see everything so clearly and other times you can't even see yourself, but then, isn't that all of us?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I've come a long way. But I've a distance to go. My dream? My dream is to soar happily into my future.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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As women, we dress to please ourselves, to hide our imperfections, to accentuate our best features. Our clothing is an extension of who we are, a reflection of what we are thinking and feeling.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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You can celebrate the love you had instead of hiding from it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Our thoughts are ever-changing, because we put them there. Once you grasp the difference between suicidal thoughts and your feelings, you will start to understand your emotions. You can separate your suicidal thoughts from your feelings.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live. But what was the point in living when there was no life in it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.
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family
life
love
down-syndrome
garden-leave
neighbour
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Age is only a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behavior.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She felt disgusting and used and like she could never trust anyone ever again, and the last thing she wanted was food.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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There was so much time wasted not spending it together.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People didn't always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Apart from them, Kitty had never been able to keep friends, not because she was disloyal in any way, she just felt that she hadn't connected with anyone deeply since her school friends and so it was easy to drift away as life moved on, as college finished and as she found new jobs and created new friendships that lasted as long as the jobs had.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I never believed in God. Not even at school when my priestly teacher drummed the fear and the guilt into us. I believed that he believed it, all right, but I thought he was mad. Delusional. I thought if somebody had to force you that much to believe in something then it wasn't worth believing, that it wasn't natural, you know?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Love can soften people, I believe that. But in me, now, love riles up an anger, a red-hot rage that crawls on my skin, seeps into my blood and brings out the worst in me. That's why everyone I love is better off loving me from afar.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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It's not easy, I suppose, but it's not all bad... I usen't to believe in marriage. My mum and dad separated when I was young, it was nasty and so I didn't have a good example of marriage, but a lot of my friends are getting married now mostly I do their hair. All brides are nervous for different reasons, whether they're sick or not. You just have to judge if they want to chat or not. Some don't. The main difference is my friends are panicki..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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And that's what the problem was - Kitty had finally nailed it. In the six months of Etcetera stories that Kitty had pored over, she now realised she hadn't written a single article that had been an idea of her own. Each story had been proposed by Pete or Cheryl or by somebody else who had enough on their own plate and was unable to write it. She hadn't noticed it happening because she hadn't minded.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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We're not in this life just to work, we're in it to live.
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love
second-chance
workaholic
life-lesson
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home." "
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Holly asked, sipping the hot tea, feeling it warm her insides.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Aspira a conseguir algo que desees y veras como este ano cobra sentido.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Todos necesitamos sonar. No hay que perder la esperanza en que es posible conseguir algo mas que lo que una tiene.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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The rush of butterflies when I saw him, the silly smile that would appear on my face at the very thought of him, the nervous bubbles in my stomach, the jolt of electricity when his skin brushed mine. Suddenly I cared about what I wore, what I said, how I looked. This didn't go unnoticed, particularly by Juniper, who watched me each day as I obsessed over my reflection before I dashed out of the house. Art noticed, too, and then I stopped fl..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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The flower display continued through the town. Window boxes adorned the shop fronts, hanging baskets hung from patent black lampposts, trees grew tall in the main street. Each building was painted a different refreshing color and the main street, the only street, was a rainbow of mint greens, salmon pinks, lilacs, lemons, and blues. The pavements were litter free and gleaming as soon as you averted your gaze above the gray slate roofs you f..
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if-you-could-see-me-now
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Why do bad things happen to good people? Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time.
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missing
mystery
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She was nicknamed The Graveyard. Any secret, any piece of confidential information, personal or otherwise, that went in never, ever came back out. You knew you were safe; you knew you would never be judged or, if you were it would be silently, so you'd never know.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Al final la veritat sempre preval, sobresurt per sobre de tot. Es recargola i es retorca per dins, creix fins que la llengua inflada ja no es pot cargolar al voltant de la mentida, fins que arriba el moment en que necessita escopir les paraules i enviar la veritat volant per l'aire i xocant contra el mon. La veritat i el temps sempre treballen de bracet.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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He didn't know that he couldn't tell life when he was ready to learn, but that life would teach him when it was good and ready.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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You don't need to make a song and dance about the fact the world has spun around the sun one more time.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I can't remember how long it's been since I spent Christmas in Dublin. Long enough, once again. But soon enough Prince Moonbeam and Princess Buttercup shall be reunited.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She is you, Rosie. The little girl with raven-colored hair and pale skin is the girl I used to go to school with. It was amazing. Even talking to her felt like young Alex again. Toby kept a watchful eye over me though, I think he was afraid I would steal his friend away. I felt like I was keeping a watchful eye over him too, because he was stealing my friend away. I had to keep reminding myself that it wasn't you.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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He's a simple man only I don't really believe that. 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 a lot.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Katie: People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell. Why don't you talk to him?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they're around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day-nothing-they're gone
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People, like houses, hold their secrets. Sometimes the secrets inhabit them, and sometimes people inhabit their secrets.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Truth and time always work alongside each other.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.
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Cecelia Ahern |