Home isn't a place, it's a feeling

— Cecelia Ahern

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 shiftiness better.

— Cecelia Ahern

How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all used to keep going, a template for sanity.

— Cecelia Ahern

I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. — When you’re happy, you don’t question the world so much. When you’re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery

— Cecelia Ahern

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

— Cecelia Ahern

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white. Remember this.

— Cecelia Ahern

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

— Cecelia Ahern

I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.

— Cecelia Ahern

I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence, and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach in to the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's okay to feel like this.

— Cecelia Ahern

I’d live anywhere, - in one room, in the castle ruin right now – if it meant we could all just be together.

— Cecelia Ahern