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My dear Rosie, Unbeknownst to you I took this chance before, many, many years ago. You never received that letter and I'm glad because my feelings since then have changed dramatically. They have intensified with every passing day. I'll get straight to the point because if I don't say what I have to say now, I fear it will never be said. And I need to say it. Today I love you more than ever; I want you more than ever. I'm a man of fifty year..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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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."
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.
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science
miracles
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Cecelia Ahern |
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You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don't live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn't shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Where would we be without tomorrows? What we'd have instead are todays. And if that was the case, with you, I'd hope for the longest day for today. I'd fill today with you, doing everything I've ever loved. I'd laugh, I'd talk, I'd listen and learn, I'd love, I'd love, I'd love. I'd make every day today and spend them all with you, and I'd never worry about tomorrow, when I wouldn't be with you. And when that dreaded tomorrow comes for us, ..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again.
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relationships
love
fear-of-commitment
the-time-of-my-life
risks
disappointment
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Cecelia Ahern |
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If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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There's something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it's because they're supposed to be the strong ones, but that's not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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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.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.
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secrets
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Cecelia Ahern |
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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.
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love
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After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive. And though it may be human nature to dwell, like many natural things it's senseless, senseless to allow a single thought to inhabit a mind because thoughts are like guests or fair-weather friends. As soon as they arrive, they can leave, and even the ones that take a long time to emerge fully can disappear in an instant. Moments are precio..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared
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inspirational
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Cecelia Ahern |
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My "Best Woman" speech Good evening everyone, my name is Rosie and as you can see Alex has decided to go down the non-traditional route of asking me to be his best woman for the day. Except we all know that today that title does not belong to me. It belongs to Sally, for she is clearly his best woman. I could call myself the "best friend" but I think we all know that today that title no longer refers to me either. That title too belongs to ..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.
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love
missing
waiting
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Cecelia Ahern |
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If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?
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cecelia-ahernt
if-you-could-see-me-now
invisible
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There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.
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Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn't make you a weak person. It's hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you 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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hope-life
life
love
inspirational
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at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.
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strength
life
inspirational
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Note to self: Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Rosie: What the hell was that silence? Steph: It sounds like something I'd like. It sounded nice. Rosie: It was.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Seeming and being are not one and the same.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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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.
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love
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you all the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention. We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wonde..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Her life in ink.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is--to piss me off."
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Cecelia Ahern |
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But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.
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god
sorry
help
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Cecelia Ahern |
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life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were..
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life
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