Flawed Quotes

“But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“We see being Flawed as a strength, Celestine. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you’re never the wiser. These so-called perfect leaders we have now have never made a mistake. How can they have learned what’s right and wrong, how could they have learned anything about themselves? About what they feel comfortable doing, about what they feel is beyond the scope of their character? The more mistake you have made, the more you have learned.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“I told you I'd find you.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you’re never the wiser. These”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“The trouble with being punctual is that there’s nobody there to see it,”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“I’ve learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Freedom of speech isn’t something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they’ll shout even louder.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“It was the most perfect moment in my life.

It was the last perfect moment in my life.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Albert Einstein: ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’” He”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Mary May: Dr. Smith says nothing's broken.

Celestine: No. If you don't count my heart, my pride and my complete belief in humanity.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“We see being Flawed as a strength. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you're never the wiser.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“...sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it’s good to see you’ve got your wits about you.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“When you see something, it can’t be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can't be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“When you see somwthing, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can't be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that cam never be unlearned”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Forget the old man,” she says sternly, so coldly, so devoid of all the love that I know her to have, that I don’t recognize her, and for that I don’t recognize the world. They are my roots, my foundations, and they sit before me now uprooted and saying things I never thought they’d say. “You will not allow a Flawed to ruin your life,” she says, and her voice cracks.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“My eyes move from side to side. I try to focus but I can't. I know why I'm here and I don't know why I'm here. I understand, and then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I did, and then I'm glad I did. I want to scream, but I don't.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Art is like a light to me, illuminating the darkest corners of everything.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“NEVER TRUST A man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man’s home. Not”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed