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“To look back, to go back, is not to be weak. It is not to reopen wounds. It takes strength, it takes courage. It takes a person who is more in control of who they are to cast a discerning, non-judgmental eye over who they once were.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“I hate goodbyes, but hating them is never a justification to stay.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“The cold, like the darkness, can become a deceptive comfort you never want to leave.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“I've come to believe that at different times our lives we are drawn to certain people for various reasons, mainly because that version of ourselves is connected to that version of them at that particular time. If you stick at it, work at it, you can grow in different directions together. Sometimes you get pulled apart, but I believe there is the right person, the one, for all the different versions of yourself. Gabriel and I lived in the now. Gerry and I aimed for forever. We got a fraction of forever. And an enjoyable now and a fraction of forever is always better than doing nothing.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“I found a new and surprising strength inside of me, I found it at the bottom of a dark and lonely place, but I found it. And unfortunately, that’s where we find most of life’s treasures. After digging, toiling in the darkness and dire, we finally hit something concrete. I learned that rock bottom can actually be a springboard.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“I am just a chapter in your life, there will be many more.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Inveniam viam - I shall either find a way or make one.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“We want to control our deaths, our goodbye to the world, and if we can't control is, we can at least control how we leave it behind.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“People can surprise you when you suffer through grief. It's not true that you discover who your friends are, but it's true to say that their characters are revealed.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“You can't replace people, Paul, you'll never be replaced, but you can replace roles.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“I must stop feeling so deeply but I must not be numb; I must move on but I must not forget; I must be happy but not reject sadness; I must embrace but not cling; I must deal with but not dwell on; I must confront but not attack; I must eliminate but not annihilate; I must be gentle with myself but I must be strong.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“I experienced a great tragedy at a young age and I thought that was me done, I got it over and done with. In a world of infinite possibilities, I should have known there is no end to the loss that we can experience, but neither is there to the knowledge and growth that arises because of it and in spite of it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“So many things to be and not be; I am nothing, but I'm everything, yet I must, I must, I must.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“I'm equally terrified by life and ecstatic to be living it at the same time.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“We don’t often remember how we meet, we mostly remember how we part.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“We're just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what to do to each other, with each other, for each other.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“When you're a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you're an adult you realize that's the worst part of it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It's always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“But we weren't ready to become adults. Someone should have stopped us.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we're more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“God doesn't protect people from knives, sweetheart. That's why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Tante Isabelle says it’s better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you’ll fly before you fall.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner