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Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends.

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Sorry, Fall, Eye

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That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

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Dream, Here And There, Different

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So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

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I Love You, Together, Remember

"P.S. I Love You". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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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

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Rope, Lines, Height

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Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.

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Sorry, Frustration, Hands

Cecelia Ahern (2009). “The Book of Tomorrow”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

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Believe, Life Is, Havens

Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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On the other hand, she was a women with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories. Whether it happened in ten months or ten years, Holly would obey Gerry's final message. Whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart and follow where it led. In the meantime, she would just live.

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Love, Memories, Heart

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I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

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Thinking, Order, Needs

Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

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Divorce, Light, People

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You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

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Perfect, Together, Titles

Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare my marriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.

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Running, Dad, Advice

Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

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Expression, People, Judging

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Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.

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Heart, Doe, Alex

Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.

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Memories, Mind, Bags

Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.122, Hachette UK

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Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts

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Change, Blow, Thinking

Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

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Thinking, Boston, Cry

Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.

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Thinking, Giving, Littles

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Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.

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Thinking, Sides, Realizing

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Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.

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Dream, Air, Land

Cecelia Ahern (2006). “If You Could See Me Now”, p.11, Hachette UK

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To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

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Favors, Asks, Generous

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I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

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Men, Closets, Barbecue

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they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

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Worry, Sanity

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Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

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Grieving, Two, People

Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.21, Hachette UK

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My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.

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Dream, Thinking, Space

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Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

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Beach, Sea, Two

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Born: September 30, 1981
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