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That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Expect
Lessons
Learn
Thing
Always
Life

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I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
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This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else now, as it did for the people before us, and I feel happy to let it go. Happy that I can begin again, anew, though bearing the scars of before. They represent wounds that have healed.
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We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.
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Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe
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She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.
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Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
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To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
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Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.
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What is it with people these days? he hisses... In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'
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Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.
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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.
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People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not. Shouldn't the storyteller believe it. The storyteller should tell it.
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But where pain was, healing could come where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.
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Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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I don't want to be one 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.
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I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.
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Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
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well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going
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You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
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I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.
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