“Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it’s a maybe. A ‘maybe someday things won’t always be this shit.’ And that ‘maybe’ immediately makes the shittiness better.”

Irish novelist

Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist from Dublin, known for contemporary fiction and for books such as Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, and PS, I Love You. Her novels have been published in nearly fifty countries and have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Two of her books were adapted into films, and her short story collection Roar became a series for Apple TV+.