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Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Though
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Offends
Eye
Falling
Upwards
Fall
Presence
Apologetic
Everything
Constantly
Downward
Always
Sorry
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World
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I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.
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what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
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Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.
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She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.
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One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
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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.
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All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.
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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
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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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Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.
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