I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

— Cecelia Ahern

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe it's the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

— Cecelia Ahern

I don’t want to bone of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

— Cecelia Ahern

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that I had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

— Cecelia Ahern

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

— Cecelia Ahern

If you have a dream, you want to at least be able to try to achieve it in some way. Something that is seemingly beyond your grasp but that you know that with a bit of hard work you could possibly achieve.

— Cecelia Ahern

I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. Furthermore, I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen. That makes me sound like a believer, and I’m not necessarily that either. I’ll phrase it better: I just accept things that happen. All things.

— Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

— Cecelia Ahern

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

— Cecelia Ahern

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.

— Cecelia Ahern