Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they’re complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better—to know that they can rise above that and make something great.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs from and surpasses sincerity. We see many people who are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than what they are; but they are always fearing lest they should be taken for what they are not.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.