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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.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
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Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.
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Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.
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I think I wished for you all of my life.
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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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Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.
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As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.
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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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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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what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
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Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.
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Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.
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Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone
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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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Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?
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What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
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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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She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.
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It’s not easy remembering the good times.
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Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.
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