Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem Cecelia Ahern More Quotes by Cecelia Ahern More Quotes From Cecelia Ahern Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted Cecelia Ahern life-sucks floating soul I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons. Cecelia Ahern buttons change hands As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who sorround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you. Cecelia Ahern giving-up cheer children I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little. Cecelia Ahern hate goodbye people I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that. Cecelia Ahern one-day strong character Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love. Cecelia Ahern fleeing falling-in-love mind Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me. Cecelia Ahern space inspiration writing 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 and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it. Cecelia Ahern strong hurt fall what you don't know, you don't miss Cecelia Ahern joy-luck-club twists missing We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Cecelia Ahern i-dont-love-you privilege realizing For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you. Cecelia Ahern yesterday-and-today tomorrow waiting Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don’t have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you’re in trouble. Cecelia Ahern calendars growing-up children Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone Cecelia Ahern stand-alone nice I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything. Cecelia Ahern mazes circles way How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid. Cecelia Ahern growing achievement challenges 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. Cecelia Ahern makeup husband heart Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favorite song that you knew by heart. It’s like suddenly forgetting the name of someone you know really well and see every day, or the name of a television show you watched for years. It’s something so frustrating that it plays on your mind over and over again because you know there’s an answer but no one can tell you it. It niggles and niggles at me and I can’t rest until I know the answers. Cecelia Ahern heart song years Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel. Cecelia Ahern rosie miserable love-is There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. Cecelia Ahern ocean sea islands Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’. Cecelia Ahern make-you-think dream thinking
