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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Ordinary
Single
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Stories
Persons
Person
Every
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Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
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That was other thing i hated about kids they always said th exact things that deep dpwn you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.
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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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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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You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.
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So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.
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But where pain was, healing could come where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.
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what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
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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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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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My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.
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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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Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You.
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Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?
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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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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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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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It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see.
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But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing she wanted to live.
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