Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? — Marian Keyes Despair Copy Share Image
“sometimes things don’t happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know. — Marian Keyes Dinner Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't… — Marian Keyes Betrayal Copy Share Image
No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was… — Marian Keyes Gratitude Copy Share Image
I haven’t had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don’t… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will… — 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 hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door.… — Marian Keyes Business Copy Share Image
“Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff.… — Marian Keyes Choices 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
“The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move them, sometimes a few feet,… — Marian Keyes Desert Copy Share Image
The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in… — Marian Keyes Depression Copy Share Image
“What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and… — Marian Keyes Contradiction 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 Decision Copy Share Image
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy.… — Marian Keyes Breakup 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Back at my parents’, Mum was waiting with a muffin for me. ‘Banana and pecan. I know it’s the wrong colour but… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I… — Marian Keyes Dream Copy Share Image
“Temporary Insanity had come a-knocking and I had shouted "Come on in the door is open." Luckily, Reality had come unexpectedly and… — Marian Keyes Humor Copy Share Image
Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't… — Marian Keyes Ancient Copy Share Image
“Are you close to your family?' I considered it. 'Close' was one way of putting it. 'We're close,' I said cautiously. 'But… — Marian Keyes Close family Copy Share Image
“Two and a half years ago I’d learned to stop wanting comfort from the people around me, because they couldn’t give it.… — Marian Keyes Depression Copy Share Image
