Cecelia Ahern Quotes

He missed his imagined future.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can't go there.

I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

When he died, he took a big piece of me with him. I'm sure that every time I do something, I'll think about having done it with Hef.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers.

I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something that was never amazing. So, what I've learned is that even if it ends badly, it's worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.

With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.