Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

I like stories that affect families.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

My family is probably too involved in my life because they are my best friends, but I love that.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

Family counts for a lot in this world.

So much of life's dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it's really inspiring for any number of stories in all the fields I write in.

Every family goes through ups and downs. You may want a relationship with someone, which your family may not approve of but they don't stop loving you.

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.

Family is always irreplaceable, even when they’re also irreconcilable.

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.

Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.