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My life began at five years old. Knowing that I would die instilled something in me that I carry to this day: the awareness that, despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realised that my hour and someone else's hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way, we cannot think of it in the same way.
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If you think I'm going to let you take over my life, you're wrong.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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So this is what you do when it all slows down and the minutes that tick by feels a little longer than before. You open your eyes a little wider, and look at everything. Take it all in. Rehash stories of old, remember people, times and occasions gone by. Allow everything you see to remind you of something. Talk about those things. Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter. Find out the answers you didn'..
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My friends' hugs are longer and tighter; consist of extra squeezes and pats, which alternate between a circular rubbing motion and a light pitter-pattering on the back, both of which I find surprisingly comforting.
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The moon made me do it.
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You should be with someone who can make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy. Someone who should have taken the chance to be with you years ago instead of getting scared and being too afraid to try.
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Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more.
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The machine has helped the creator of the machine to survive. No, it hasn't helped him. It has kept him alive. Gave him reason. A thing he felt his life was deeply lacking in.
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But in reality the old man did not leave an empty life, because it was filled to the brim with the ghost of his past.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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It is what he regrets, what beats him up inside that makes him relive it over and over a thousand times a day.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Steven awoke to his alarm ringing at seven a.m. Waking up, the first disappointment of every day, was as usual followed by its faithful friend, dread.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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If only they knew how his days were covered in darkness, as if someone had turned off the light switch in his mind; if only they knew how his waking up in the morning was the first disappoint of every day. He was tired, he had nothing left to give, no more ideas to try.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She understood how it felt being surrounded by crowds of people every day, never physically being alone but all the time feeling it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I may have lost everything I ever owned and loved, but in return I was given the world.
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I know now that we never truly stop, our journey is never complete, because we will continue to flourish - just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can't be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned
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Hate is a very strong word, Emelda. You don't hate--you dislike.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I was seventeen when I fell in love with the beast named Charlie. "Fell" is the appropriate word because it was indeed my downfall."
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It was the day I was going to take hold of my life. I would once and for all take back what was rightfully mine: my freedom, my dignity and my pride.
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When I had got dressed that morning I had felt beautiful and ready to take on the world. Now I felt like the little girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that blew up like a blueberry and rolled off. The more they all stared at me, the more my confidence crumbled.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I needed someone to tell me that I wasn't as useless as everyone else was making me feel.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I was tired of being used and walked all over by the people who were supposed to love me.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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There was a difference within me today. I didn't care what his problem was. I didn't care if I had done something to annoy him. This time I knew it wasn't my fault. It had never been my fault.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I've learned that the best revenge is finding happiness again.
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Her heart was pounding, she was tired of thinking about it, tired of analyzing what on earth had happened, but she suddenly felt the need to repent, to apologize for everything she had ever done wrong just to feel worthy again.
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She was afraid to be alone. She didn't know what to do; she couldn't spend another moment thinking about this, beating herself up about it, but she didn't feel it was right not to either.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She never wanted anybody to fail to meet their potential. To her that was the greatest error of all.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She knew she was deliberately finding flaw with everything about herself, and finding very little to celebrate. She second-guessed everything she said and did.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She was feeling far from inspired and her self-belief was at an all-time low.
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Despite going to bed without an ounce of hope, she managed to wake up somehow feeling vibrant and full of possibilities. A new day meant a new start to her search. She could do it. This was her moment to redeem herself, to make Constance proud.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I know you mustn't think that I understand, that I'm a heartless bitch who couldn't possibly understand, but I do. Believe me, I do. I understand because I'm going through it too.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Your happiness makes me jealous and unhappy. I am a bitter and twisted human being.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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It's something I've always wanted to do but never did. With work and everything it's hard to find the time to do things for yourself. So I just thought one day, fuck it, do it. And I did. Or at least I'm trying.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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You need to keep your strength up, or those fuckers will get you down.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I want to get back to doing what it is that I love, what makes my world normal again. And I want people to believe in me again. I want you to look at me and listen to me without doubt that I can see so obviously. I'm second-guessing myself enough as it is. I don't need it from everyone else too.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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NO. For someone to win, somebody else must lose. For that person to have won they must have lost something in the first place. The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced. Not even justice itself is perfect.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Her definition of cheating and his was always different.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Maybe it's wrong to deprive people of that experience, this experience of you I'm having. Maybe I didn't want to share you.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Who ever needs to know what people say about them behind their backs?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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He's losing himself, he doesn't like what he's becoming. It's not him. Not who he wants to be.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She's had no one to share these thoughts with, no one but herself, and she's driving herself crazy.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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This is me, trying to make a choice, to make something for myself in the only way that I know how.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Why don't you run away and leave everybody else to clean up the mess? Then you can get on your high horse as usual and blame everybody but yourself.
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