Marian Keyes

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

— Marian Keyes

“Reality had run and got Sanity.”

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

“Our health is our wealth.”

— Marian Keyes

Optimism can be relearnt.

— Marian Keyes

“Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.”

— Marian Keyes

The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

— Marian Keyes

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

— Marian Keyes

“sometimes things don’t happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It”

— Marian Keyes

“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard”

— Marian Keyes

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

— Marian Keyes

“I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.”

— Marian Keyes

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.

— Marian Keyes

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

— Marian Keyes

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

“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

“Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?”

— Marian Keyes

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

“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

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

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and…

— Marian Keyes

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

— Marian Keyes

“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

“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

“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

“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…

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I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless,…

— Marian Keyes

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

— Marian Keyes

It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're…

— 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

“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

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