Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Some things you just don't get over.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

I think when a relationship doesn't work in your life, it doesn't mean that your life is over.

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

Our love is strong. Why carry on without me?

I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye

How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

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.

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?