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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.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Special
Influential
Face
Distant
Faces
Vague
Important
Easily
Years
Forgotten
Time
Memory
People
Later
Memories
Treasured

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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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Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare my marriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.
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Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
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Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.
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Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You.
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To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.
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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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what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
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