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“Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“We see being Flawed as a strength, Celestine. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you’re never the wiser. These so-called perfect leaders we have now have never made a mistake. How can they have learned what’s right and wrong, how could they have learned anything about themselves? About what they feel comfortable doing, about what they feel is beyond the scope of their character? The more mistake you have made, the more you have learned.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed

“Albert Einstein: ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’” He”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed