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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 76e3961 | The realisation hits me like a ton of bricks and I can't seem to catch my breath. I couldn't tell anybody my dreams if they asked me right now, nor my hopes and desires. If I was asked to put a plan into action, I wouldn't know where to start. I feel utterly lost. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bb28407 | May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul, | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7dcc04e | earlier?" Gabe" | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a00f253 | Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2d7510a | 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." - Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow" | Suzanne Handler | ||
| ac2c5e8 | people who constantly looked over their shoulders often bumped | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 22c6b5d | When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ed7ed5b | Rosie: I know what it is. You just don't want me to be single because I'm a distraction to you. If I'm with a man then you think that you just might be able to keep your hands off me. I know deep down that's what this is all about. I've sussed you out, Alex Stewart. You love me. You want me to have your babies. You can't stand another day without me. Alex: I... don't no what to say... Rosie: Relax, I'm joking. What happened to make you ch.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 159e0b7 | He was too detached from the family to start trying in one evening to check himself into a place where there was currently no vacancy. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e7cbb4b | It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2803db0 | the pile of personal problems in their inboxes grew higher. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b8ffaaf | 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? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8eca70c | Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing. | rushing | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 4ea246a | I've increasingly found that people never truly tire of playing games and dressing up, no matter how many years pass. Our lies now are just more sophisticated; our words to deceive, more eloquent. From cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, to husband and wife, we've never stopped pretending. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2dfaf7d | It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when a moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 29c19f3 | Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves. | missing mystery | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 79090b1 | You both know where you want to be. I suppose that's because you have each other and anywhere Dad is feels like home to you. I've learned that home isn't a place, it's a feeling. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ffb0ef6 | They say it gets easier,' he smiled. 'So they say,' Holly said grimly. 'Apparently gallons of tea do the trick. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8c07287 | Tomo un sorbo de te. Ah, las maravillas del magico te. La respuesta a todos los pequenos problemas de la vida. Tenias un cotilleo y preparabas una taza de te, te despedian del trabajo y tomabas una taza de te, tu marido te decia que tenia un tumor cerebral y tomabas una taza de te... | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f34dd19 | When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 89368e1 | size | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4a538ee | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| cd02dc1 | If you think I'm going to let you take over my life, you're wrong. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 08f4a7f | 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'.. | slow-down take-your-time | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 4fe1a96 | 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. | friends friendship hugs | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 57e6a85 | The moon made me do it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5f2bf42 | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| cc9ae61 | Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e3b91ba | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e956ff9 | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1d46ba6 | It is what he regrets, what beats him up inside that makes him relive it over and over a thousand times a day. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d6b7130 | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 10d2610 | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e69cfff | She understood how it felt being surrounded by crowds of people every day, never physically being alone but all the time feeling it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| cd26270 | I may have lost everything I ever owned and loved, but in return I was given the world. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1493f90 | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 59641c3 | 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 | lessons-in-life lessons-learned truth truth-of-life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| c87f7e0 | Hate is a very strong word, Emelda. You don't hate--you dislike. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 0271166 | I was seventeen when I fell in love with the beast named Charlie. "Fell" is the appropriate word because it was indeed my downfall." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c8905ce | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f47334a | 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. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4763edd | I needed someone to tell me that I wasn't as useless as everyone else was making me feel. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3bc537c | I was tired of being used and walked all over by the people who were supposed to love me. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 0353504 | 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. | Cecelia Ahern |