Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy.… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“He'd done his walls with paint from Holy Basil. God, I yearned for their colors. I hadn't been able to afford them… — 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
“My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong… — 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 Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam… — Marian Keyes 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 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
“When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. “But… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“I awake. I don’t mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
