Tuesday, February 06, 2007
"Things are as they are, no matter how bizarre."
"The only time people can look so confident and as though they can face anything is when something bad happens."
"Why don't you let me ask you the questions for a moment and maybe through your answers, we'll find the answers you want."
"I find that through talking about themselves people learn things that they didn't know before. It's a kind of self-healing. I ask questions because i like to help people."
"No, it's a feeling of knowing something is missing in your life but not being able to find it no matter how hard you look."
"But in my pursuit of answers to all the difficult questions in my life, I missed out on the obvious ones right in front of my very eyes."
"But my grandmother didn't believe in coincidences. And neither do i. You're here for a reason, Sandy."
"I can only assume that there's only one thing
more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything."
"Everything in life has a place and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else."
"Our memories are the only contact we have. We can hug, kiss, laugh and cry with them over and over again in our minds. They're very precious things to have."
"I had spent my life detaching myself from anyone who wanted to be close, disassociating myself from friends and lovers because they never answered my questions or tolerated or understood my searches."
"Finding this place was just one big answer to a life-long question that had caused me to sacrifice everything. I'd hurt so many people that loved me in order to help those that I couldn't see and now as I was just about to see them I was afraid to let them in too."
"In reality I sacrificed nothing. My behaviour suited me and only me."
"I have found that the many imbalances within our individual lives result in an overall more worldly balance. What i mean is that no matter how unfair I think something is, I need only to look at the bigger picture to see how, in a way, it fits. My dad was right when he said that there was no such thing as a free meal:
everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves. Whenever something is gained, it has been taken from another place. When something is lost, it arrives elsewhere. There are the usual philosophical questions: why do bad things happen to good people? Within every bad thing I see good, and likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. As humans we are the epitome of life, in life there is always balance. Life and death, male and female, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, win and lose, love and hate. Lost and found."
"Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention. "
"We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found."
-Quotes from
A Place Called Here by
Cecelia Ahern.I love the last 3 quotes the best.
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