Love, Rosie QUOTES

181 " But it’s a beautiful summer and it doesn’t feel quite right. The atmosphere doesn’t suit the mood, there’s the sound of children’s laughter floating up from the beach down below, there are birds singing and dancing around the sky, swooping low and catching their fresh meals from the sea. It doesn’t feel right to love the world and see such brightness when something so awful has happened. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

182 " Rosie: I know what it is. You just don't want me to be single because I'm a distraction to you. If I'm with a man then you think that perhaps you just might be able to keep your hands off me. I know deep down that's what this is all about. I've sussed you out, Alex Stewart. You love me. You want me to have your babies. You can't stand another day without me.
Alex: I... don't no what to say...
Rosie: Relax, I'm joking. What happened to make you change your mind about Bethany? "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

183 " I know what's going on, Rosie. You're my best friend and I can see the sadness in your eyes. I know that Greg isn't away working for the weekend. You never could lie to me; you were always terrible at it. Your eyes betray you time and time again. Don't pretend that everything is perfect because I see it isn't. I see that Greg is a selfish man who has absolutely no idea just how lucky he is and it makes me sick. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

184 " I don’t want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

185 " I just know that there’s a job for me at the end of the rainbow. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

186 " Josh takes chances; he’s braver than I am. He always takes that extra step when he nos he shouldn’t. He does it anyway and he learns. I think we adults have a lot to learn from that. Perhaps to not be so afraid and oversensible about reaching for goals. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

187 " Oh don’t let people walk all over you Buttercup. It’s your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

188 " I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

189 " And then there was this silence. This really weird silence. We stared at each other as though we were seeing each other for the very first time. It was like the world stopped turning just for us. An odd magical silence. The very same one that you told me you had with someone all those years ago. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

190 " You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you're doing, where you are, who you're with and if you're ok. You need someone who can protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who can make you happy, really happy, dancing-on-air happy. Someone who should have taken the chance to be with you years ago instead of becoming scared and being too afraid to try.
I am not scared anymore, Rosie. I am not afraid to try. I know what that feeling was at your wedding - it was jealousy. My heart broke when I saw the woman I love turning away from me to walk down the aisle with another man, a man she planned to spend the rest of her life with. It was like a prison sentence for me - years stretching ahead without me being able to tell you how I feel or hold you how I wanted to.
Twice we've stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day.
I should never have let your lips leave mine all those years ago in Boston. I should never have wasted all those years without you. Give me a chance to make them up to you. I love you, Rosie, and I want to be with you and Katie and Josh. Always.
Please think about it. Don't waste your time on Greg. This is our opportunity. Let's stop being afraid and take the chance. I promise I'll make you happy. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

191 " Es curioso porque en la infancia crees que puedes ser cualquier cosa que quieras, ir a donde te venga en gana. No hay límites. Esperas lo inesperado, crees en la magia.
Luego te haces mayor y la inocencia se hace añicos. Las realidades de la vida se interponen en tu camino y caes en la cuenta de que no puedes ser todo lo que querías ser, que quizá tengas que conformarte con un poquito menos.
¿Por qué dejamos de creer en nosotros mismos? ¿Por qué permitimos que los hechos y las cifras acaben gobernando nuestras vidas en lugar de los sueños?
Pero ahora mi mente ha vuelto a cambiar. No hay nada imposible, Alex. Siempre lo he tenido a mi alcance. El problema es que no estiraba bastante el brazo, eso es todo. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

192 " As for Dad, he was supposed to live forever. The one who could open all the jar lids nobody else could, who fixed whatever was broken, was supposed to do that forever. The man who let me sit on his shoulders, climb on his back, chase me around while making monster noises, throw me in the air and catch me, spin me around so much that I felt dizzy and fell over laughing. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

193 " Es curioso porque en la infancia crees que puedes ser cualquier cosa que quieras, ir a donde te venga la gana. No hay límites. Esperas lo inesperado, crees en la magia. Luego te haces mayor y la inocencia se hace añicos. Las realidades de la vida se interponen en tu camino y caes en la cuenta de que no puedes ser todo lo que querías ser, que quizá tengas que conformarte con un poquito menos.
¿Por qué dejamos de creer en nosotros mismos?¿Por qué permitimos que los hechos y cifras acaben gobernando nuestra vida en lugar de los sueños? "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

194 " I wake up in the morning and feel like I'm missing something. I know there's something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is... then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

195 " People come and people go and we know this happens, yet we get such a shock when it does. To use that old cliché, the only certainty in life is death. It's a certainty, it's the one condition of living that we're given but we often let it tear us apart. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

196 " Over there I felt like I hadn't a care in the world. Things felt so good and it was almost as if every muscle in my body relaxed the moment I landed there. I haven't laughed so much in years. I felt like a twenty-two-year-old, Steph. I haven't felt like that much lately. I know this probably sounds weird but I felt like the me that I could have been. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

197 " Rosie Dunne, I love you with all my heart. I have always loved you, even when I was seven years old and lied about falling asleep on Santa watch, when I was ten years old and didn't invite you to my birthday party, when I was eighteen and had to move away, even on my wedding days, on your wedding day, on christenings, birthdays and when we fought. I loved you through it all. Make me the happiest man on this earth by being with me. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

198 " And as the magical silence once again embraced them, after fifty years, all they could do was look at each other, and smile. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie

199 " I know you have found someone who is extra special, and I know you both have a special “bond,” or whatever, that you and I will never have. But we have another bond, we’re best friends. Or does the best friend bond disappear as soon as you meet somebody else? Maybe it does, maybe I just don’t understand that because I haven’t met that “somebody special.” I’m not in any hurry to, either. I liked things the way they were. "

― Cecelia Ahern , Love, Rosie