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Love, Rosie

Cecelia Ahern

2005

ISBN 0-7868-9108-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-7868-9108-5

 

..Life is far from perfect, for everyone. You’re not the only one, there isn’t a great big black cloud just hanging over your head and no one else’s. It just feels that way. But it feels like that for a lot of people.

 

…Soul mates have a way of finding their way to each other.

 

…people who say it’s a long story mean it’s a stupid short on that they’re too embarrassed and couldn’t be bother to tell.

 

…Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

 

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

 

...Last month you were 36. That means you’re 4 years from 40. Do you think that the day you reach 40 you will be any different than you were at 39 or 41 for that matter ?

People create little ideas about ages so they can write silly self-help books, stick stupid comments in birthday cards, create names for Internet chat rooms, and look for excuse for crises that are happening in their life.

….Age is only a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behavior.

 

There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents aspect. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. 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 toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

        When you find out you’re pregnant and feel numb of all emotions you look at their expressions. When both your mum and dad hug you and tell your it’s going to be OK. and that they’ll support you, you know it’s not the end of the world. But depending on the parents, it could have been pretty damn close.

        Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect. I had never seen my mum cry so much in all of my life which scared me and made me cry which scared Katie and made her cry. We all cried together.

….There’s nothing more uplifting than to hear the sound of innocent child being so happy in a place that people are sad. It reminds you that life goes on and on, just not for the one you’re saying good-bye to. People come and people go and we know this happens, yet we get such a shock when it does. To use 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 up apart.

 

…We are sorry to see you go but you have to. My retirement was one year later than planned but it was worth hanging around to see you succeed. Rosie Dunne, you have been the longest project of my life, my eldest and longest – serving student, and although we may have had a rocky start and an even rockier middle, I am so glad to see you succeed at the end.

 

“Well we’re not exactly 20 years old are we ? ”

“No, thank god for that because if that was the case I would have to go through a shit marriage and a divorce all over again. We could have to go out and look for jobs, be all uncertain about our lives, care about dating and how we look and what car we’re diving, what music we’re playing in it, what we wear, whether we’ll get into certain clubs or not bla bla bla bla. What’s good about being 20? I call them the materialistic years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it.”

“Hmmm..good point, what are the 50s for?”

“Fixing what you fucked up on in your 40s.”

 

…don’t let people walk all over you …. 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.

…Good girls have a conscience and that way they can live with themselves.

 

…You can fall in love with your best friend ! Who knew ?! I’ve packed everything up and I’m heading home to Dublin with my heart filled with love and hope and my head filled with dreams ! Mum told me about the silence se experienced years ago. She kept telling me when I felt that silence with someone, it meant they were “ the one” I was beginning to think she made it up but she didn’t ! This magical silence exists!