The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. — Marian Keyes Approach Copy Share Image
One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky. — Marian Keyes Astronomy Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly. — Marian Keyes Change Copy Share Image
Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen. — Marian Keyes Being 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 Burden Copy Share Image
Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion… — Marian Keyes Confusion Copy Share Image
“Anton and I went to see her in her office in Soho. It was less than a fortnight before I gave birth… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. ‘Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Didn't go in, just hovered outside like homeless person because (a) place was too small and Detta would have spotted me, and… — Marian Keyes Homeless Copy Share Image
why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are… — Marian Keyes Battle Copy Share Image
“It’s upsetting when the nice bloke you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it’s nearly as… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless,… — Marian Keyes Books Copy Share Image
“Katie's mum, Penny, said "I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's… — marian keyes Time Copy Share Image
“I need you to get inside Wayne's head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant… — Marian Keyes Character-description Copy Share Image
“Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I’m forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to,… — Marian Keyes Confidence Copy Share Image
“I employ this thing I called The Shovel List.” “A shovel..?” “No, a shovel list. It’s more of a conceptual thing. It’s… — 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 Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Drink never drown anyone's sorrows," he went on. "It only teaches them how to swim.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you” — Marian Keyes Life Copy Share Image
“Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.” — Marian Keyes Spontaneity Copy Share Image
For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness. — Marian Keyes Darkness Copy Share Image
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes Breakup Copy Share Image
“The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them.” — Marian Keyes Astronomy Copy Share Image
I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
