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I find that, usually, answers present themselves. They are not hidden under rocks or camouflaged among trees. Answers are right there, in front of our eyes. But if you haven't cause to look, then of course you will probably never find them.
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In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings. First step is to identify the shit.
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The next best thing never last for too long
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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When you don't have a next place to go, time slows down enormously.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Sometimes the very thing I am looking for is staring me straight in the face, but I can't see it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I've learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Time can't be given. But it can be shared.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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From Stephanie To Rosie Subject Re: Life Well, isn't that one thing you're all the wiser for? Age has taught you something. That nobody knows what's going on.
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Childbirth is nothing compared to exercise, and Gary was a big baby. This is what they should do to prisoners of war when they're trying to interrogate them.
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ruby
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It bothers me that so many lack common sense, that their opinions can be so biased and backward, so utterly frustrating,misguided,misinformed and dangerous that I can't stand to listen to them.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud. Having to take care of her sister's child had sent her love away and there had been no one since. She had learned not to lose control of her feelings again.
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Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it. Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for? Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s. Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it
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Cecelia Ahern |
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And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn't make a good foundation for marriage.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Remember our wonderful memories, but please don't be afraid to make some more
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I'm real. And i'm not going anywhere until you open those eyes properly and see me
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I learned something important that night. You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.
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life-lessons
life
insecurities
selfconfidence
life-lesson
teenagers
vulnerable
vulnerability
insecurity
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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FatherMichael: OK we should get on with this; I don't want to be late for my 2 o'clock. First I have to ask, is there anyone in here who thinks there is any reason why these two should not be married? LonelyLady: Yes. SureOne: I could give more than one reason. Buttercup: Hell yes. SoOverHim: DON'T DO IT! FatherMichael: Well I'm afraid this has put me in a very tricky predicament. Divorced_1: Father we are in a divorced chat room, of course..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?
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me-too
ps-i-love-you
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children learn much more, far more quickly than adults. Do you know why that is? Because they're open-minded. Because they want to know and they want to learn. Adults, think they know it all. They grow up and forget so easily and instead of opening their minds and developing it they choose what to believe and what not to believe. You can't make a choice on things like that: you either believe or you don't. That's why their learning is slowe..
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Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes - you've no idea how lucky you are. Actually, forget about the luck, you've no idea how important it is to be acknowledged, even if it is with an angry glare. It's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.
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I'd live anywhere, - in one room, in the castle ruin right now - if it meant we could all just be together.
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love
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I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from myself, from absolute despair. Maybe he does know and that's exactly what he was doing. He was like an angel who came into my life with his bus of books at exactly the right time, who whisked me away from a terrible place to a faraway land.
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How else do you think life happen? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow.
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Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father's advice when I couldn't sleep as a little girl. He wouldn't want me to do that now but I've set my mind to the task regardless. I'm staring beyond my closed eyelids. Though I lie still on the ground, I feel perched at the highest point I could possibly be; clutching at a star in the night sky with my legs dangling above cold black nothingness. I take one last look at my fingers wrapped aro..
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motherhood
death
darkness
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You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you're doing, where you are, who you're with, and if you're OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with so..
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Here's an idea, Rosie. Why don't you just
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love
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Don't worry..we all have our blips. See, we all go through it, now it's your turn. It's only fair
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Albert Einstein: 'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.'" He"
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I cannot get through this day. But I did. Somehow. And then that day was over and I was facing the night and I said to myself, I cannot face this night. But I did. Somehow
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You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn't turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity.
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Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if they were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you'd never experienced downs?
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Cecelia Ahern |
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You were the only person who truly told me in that interview that you weren't afraid to fly, that in fact you were afraid that you wouldn't.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.
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Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world,..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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kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes.
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Dear Alex, I think I'm going to organize a search party. Have you fallen off the edge of the earth? Are you still alive? I called your mother the other day and they haven't heard from you very much either. Is everything OK? Because if it's not, I have a right to know. You're supposed to confide in me because I'm your best friend and . . . it's law. And if things are OK then contact me anyway, I'm your friend and I need gossip. It's section ..
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UnsureOne: But surely if you've been friends since you were six and you're now thirty-two, you've both been married once and are now living with other people in different countries, then if it hasn't happened by now, it won't be happening at all.
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Like Rosaleen and Arthur's house, this had the feel of generations of people who had lived there before, families that had grown up, run and shouted through the hallways, broken things, grown things, fallen in love. Instead of the occupants owning the house, the house owned a part of each of them.
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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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