You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.

—Cecelia Ahern in The Book of Tomorrow

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About Cecelia Ahern

Portrait of Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern (born 30 September 1981) is an Irish novelist, known for her works like Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, and PS, I Love You. Born in Dublin, Ahern is published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide....

More quotations from Cecelia Ahern

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

—Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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.

—Cecelia Ahern in How to Fall in Love

She was a woman with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories. Whether it happened in ten months or ten years. Whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart and follow where it led. In the meantime, she would just live.

—Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time than we hoped for. It's sad, but it's life.

—Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

—Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

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Don't break one girl's heart because you're trying to heal yourself of another one.

—Tarryn Fisher in F*ck Love

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Even though I tried to stop feeling things for him, I just couldn't.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

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The dying must often feel this way—steaming along just fine, while on ahead someone has torn up the rails.

—Annie Dillard

I never stopped loving you. I wanted to. It would have been easier. But I can't turn it off with a switch.

—Abbi Glines in Until The End

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