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Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves they only know it after the fact.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
People
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Rarely
Nobody
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It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.
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Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.
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I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.
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Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.
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We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.
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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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Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?
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And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.
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Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.
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Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?
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What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
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Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.
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I was the life and she was the soul of every party.
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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.
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Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.
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This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.
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