I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams,… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn't say " Well, I… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“It was just that this was real life and no decision was clearly sign-posted. It's not like you take the right turning… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share
I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
“I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
“The last time I’d been unwell, suicidally depressed, whatever you want to call it, the reactions of my friends and family had fallen into… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers,… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
“I awake. I don’t mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying. — Marian Keyes Copy Share
I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
“I click to buy it and I’m furious to discover that it’s not available in Ireland and they won’t post it from abroad and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
“As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. ‘Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
“If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take… — Marian Keyes Copy Share
