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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
Facts
People
Pretend
Rarely
Nobody
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What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
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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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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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You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.
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There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.
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I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase Everything happens for a reason, and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.
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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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Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.
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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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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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Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.
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Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You.
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