The Time of My Life Quotes

“Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.'
'And yet it is still extremely funny.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they’re around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day - nothing - they’re gone. Just like that. Then you write to them, and you’re ignored, and then you write to them again and you’re ignored and finally you write to them for a third time and they barely even want to make the appointment, they’re so busy with their job, their friends and their car. How would you feel?”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you. Mine didn't. And we'll be there for each other until those final moments when we will look at each other and say, 'Thanks for staying until the end.'
And that's the truth.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn't know or didn't care that you were in the room and if they ever did acknowledge your existence it was bizarrely score one to you, and twenty years later they'd tell you they'd always had a crush on you but never had the courage to say anything and you'd tell them, What? I didn't even think you liked me? and they'd say, Are you crazy? I just never knew what to say!”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people.I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen. That makes me sound like a believer and I’m not necessarily that either. I’ll phrase it better: I just accept things that happen. All things.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“How else do you think life happen? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“Father and I have the best relationship. Sometimes our thoughts are so similar it’s almost as if we’re the same person. When people see us they are blown away by our bond, by the respect he holds for me, by the admiration I hold for him.”
― Cecelia Ahern , The Time of My Life

“I'm not one of those people who live and breathes their job, I don't take it so seriously that I want to stay longer than I am paid for or want to socialize with people I spend most of my waking hours with and would never choose to say more than two words to in the real world.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“you used to be much more…
"muchier".
You've lost your muchness.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do equally with your life, because its yours, its you, and its always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“This wash't how people spoke to each other. Where was the pretense that we liked each other, that we were both happy to be there, and we'd meet again?”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“To quote one of the most beautiful sentences that was ever said to me, "I don't love you"". He smiled, and feeling encouraged, I continued. "But I think that I easily could, and that I probably very quickly will, though I can't promise anything. It could all very possibly end in years.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“It's nobody's fault. It's not my fault. I didn't do anything wrong, I know that now. It's just the way it is. Sometimes things just don't work out. You and me, we worked for the amount of time that we worked, then we didn't anymore. We can't go back, and frankly, I can't see what we can be. I've changed.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“I tried to think about my dreams, where I wanted to be, what I really wanted, but I think to know what you want, you have to know what you don't want, and all I could figure out was that I really wished life hadn't contacted me, so I could have continued on the path I was going on. Life had complicated things. Life had tried to make things move on when I was perfectly content. He called it a rut, but he moved me from that place already, by merely by pointing out that I was there, and I would never be able to go back.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“If you have a dream, you want to at least be able to try to achieve it in some way. Something that is seemingly beyond your grasp but that you know that with a bit of hard work you could possibly achieve.”
― cecelia ahern, The Time of My Life

“sleeping?”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“the chocolate bar I had a Willy Wonka moment.’ ‘Is that secret code”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“I'd been holding my breath all that time and as soon as she turned, I let it out. My heart twisted again and for a moment I panicked. I wanted to call her back, take it back. I wanted to go to Blake, take him back. Live the way we had always lived together. But then I remembered, habit.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“Why did I walk away from something that was perfect?" They ask me all the time. But I didn't. Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road. Stuff I didn't care about, so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life