Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Even though my mom herself was anxious, I think she didn't know how to deal with it in her kid, and my dad just had no conception of what this was about, and sort of didn't even want to acknowledge it.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

Charity conceals a stupid cruelty, because it is not courageous enough to face unpleasant facts.

If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.

Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.

I'm sure that there's frustration that comes with wanting to just have a normal mom. But, I don't really know if they see it as any different than any other problem you might have with a parent. I think everybody can think about one thing that their parents used to do, all the time, that would embarrass you.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.