Cecelia Ahern Quotes

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.

I was actually born in Baltimore! Although I moved away when I was quite young and consider Chicago to be my hometown, Baltimore is sentimental to me, and I still keep in touch with family friends I knew as a little girl.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Although I don't know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.