Love, Rosie Quotes

“Moonbeam!”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“I feel happy. I want to enjoy this feeling and revel in my good fortune but there’s something niggling at me in the back of my mind. There’s a little voice whispering to me, “Things are too perfect.” It almost feels like the calm before the storm.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Sometimes I have to stop pretending I’m interested in what she’s saying in order to realize that I actually am interested.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“when you’re a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There’s no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you’re hit by the realization that you can’t be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less. Or perhaps a variation of what you once wanted. Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“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

“I just know that there’s a job for me at the end of the rainbow.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Rosie, Hello from Portugal! Weather here really hot. Dad got sunstroke and all mum does is lie by the pool which is really boring. Not much people here my age. Hotel quiet (on front of postcard) and it’s right on the beach as you can see. You would love to work here! I’m bringing home a collection of those little shampoos and shower caps and stuff that you love. The bathrobe is too big to fit into my bag. See you when I get back, Alex”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Why is it that people always put women in the same category as cars and holidays, as though we're prizes on a game show? If I had millions you'd hardly hear people saying, "Jesus, would ya look at that Rosie Dunne. All she does is spend her money on shoes, clothes and men." Doesn't sound quite right, does it?”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Because I’ve realized that no matter where you are or what you’re doing, or who you’re with, I will always honestly, truly, completely love you.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush towards you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying, ‘Bold ground,’ then you pick yourself up and get on with it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“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

“I would like to think that I've done a good enough job as a mother for her to know that running away isn't a way to solve anything. You can run and run as fast and as far as you like but the truth is, wherever you are, there you are.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Soul mates have a way of finding their way to each other.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie