Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now
10 quotes
"life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was."
"...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies..."
"That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them."
"the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life."
"People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning."
"I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon."
"It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too"
"To hell with you all, I DO believe"
"Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned."
"If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?"