The Gift Quotes

“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that as as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. It had a playful side too, as it enjoyed the crowd, tossed the children about, knocked lilos over, tipped over windsurfers, occasionally gave sailors helping hands; all done with a secret little chuckle”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Time cant be given. But it can be shared.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."

"Shouldn't the storyteller believe it."

"The storyteller should tell it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“I was the life and she was the soul of every party.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“People who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“This story is about people,secrets and time.About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who cover themselves with layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“The next best thing never last for too long”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Time can't be given. But it can be shared.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“People, like houses, hold their secrets. Sometimes the secrets inhabit them, and sometimes people inhabit their secrets. They wrap their arms tight to hug them close, twist their lying tongues around the truth. But, like gravy left overnight, the truth is a thin layer of film that forms and covers the surface. The truth prevails, rises above all else. It squirms and wriggles inside, grows until the swollen tongue can’t wrap itself around the lie any longer, until the time comes when it needs to spit the words out and send truth flying through the air and crashing into the world like…well, like a frozen dead bird through a living room window. Truth and time always work alongside each other.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“We're not in this life just to work, we're in it to live.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“So that makes time more precious, doesn’t it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you’ll never get them back.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Time can't be given. But it can be shared”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“The fear was there; it was there all the time, but it was merely disguised as something else for others to see.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can’t be given. But it can be shared.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Appreciating your loved ones,” Raphie said, a little embarrassed at first. “Acknowledging all the special people in your life. Concentrating on what’s important.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“This story is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover themselves with layers and layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Enough time leaves us warm; when our time is gone, it leaves us cold”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift