Quotes by Cecelia Ahern

“...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...”

“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart when that breaks it s completely silent. You would think as it s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some ... Read Moresort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain. If there is a noise it s internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It trashes around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been taken. That s what it looks like and that s what it sounds like a trashing panicking trapped great big beast roaring like a prisoner to its own emotions. But that s the thing about love no one is untouchable.”

“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but its what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”

“What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy. He shook his head, If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.”

“what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted”

“Memories were fine but you couldnt touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.”

“Theres no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and youre hit by the realization that you cant be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.”

“There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”

“Believe me, when you die, its everybody elses but your problem”