Marian Keyes

Optimism can be relearnt.

— Marian Keyes

“Our health is our wealth.”

— Marian Keyes

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

— Marian Keyes

“Reality had run and got Sanity.”

— Marian Keyes

“Why would we ‘swing’ when we had praying?”

— Marian Keyes

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

— Marian Keyes

“mind her when I’m away?’ I stayed overnight in”

— Marian Keyes

“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”

— Marian Keyes

“Instead of thinking, “Why me?” I think, “Why not me?”’ Extract from One Blink at a Time In”

— Marian Keyes

“Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.”

— Marian Keyes

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.

— Marian Keyes

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

— Marian Keyes

“I awake. I don’t mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.”

— Marian Keyes

“No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.”

— Marian Keyes

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

— Marian Keyes

“I don’t want to be dead. I’m curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?”

— Marian Keyes

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to…

— Marian Keyes

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course -…

— Marian Keyes

He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform…

— Marian Keyes

“Where does love go when it dies? Into flowers and other beautiful things? Back out into the universe to be recycled?”

— Marian Keyes

“That’s right,” Karen said, clutching the bag to her chest and looking like Gollum with the Ring. “It’s only stuff.”

— Marian Keyes

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in…

— Marian Keyes

“Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.”

— Marian Keyes

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

— Marian Keyes

“when we’re in emotional pain, we think it’s a mistake, something that needs to be remedied. ‘We think that the point is…

— Marian Keyes

“This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes…

— Marian Keyes

They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it…

— Marian Keyes

“As always she was kitted out in the pristine pastels of baby clothes and her little plimsolls were so white my eyes…

— Marian Keyes

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches…

— Marian Keyes

“I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn't say " Well, I…

— Marian Keyes

“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…

— Marian Keyes

“Look," she sighed. "You might be a lovely lad, in fairness you look like a lovely lad, but I can't take the…

— Marian Keyes

“I’ve brought sandwiches.” He indicated a brown paper bag. “Let’s play a game.” Startled, we looked each other in the eye. We…

— Marian Keyes

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit…

— Marian Keyes

“Devereaux is going with our pitch.” “Hey, that’s just great,” I said superperkily. “Wendell’s or mine?” “Yours.” “But you want to fire…

— Marian Keyes

“People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short…

— Marian Keyes

People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or…

— Marian Keyes

“The last time I’d been unwell, suicidally depressed, whatever you want to call it, the reactions of my friends and family had…

— Marian Keyes

God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the…

— Marian Keyes

“Feathery Stokers - There is no definitive list but here are some examples. Men who didn’t eat red meat were Feathery Strokers.…

— Marian Keyes