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
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have. — Marian Keyes Beyond Copy Share Image
“But Lucy, I've no money." I put my face up to his and smiled. He smiled back. "Frankly my dear," I beamed,… — Marian Keyes Money 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
Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you… — Marian Keyes Love Copy Share Image
“As always she was kitted out in the pristine pastels of baby clothes and her little plimsolls were so white my eyes… — Marian Keyes Solar eclipse Copy Share Image
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were,… — Marian Keyes Chapters 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
Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner… — Marian Keyes Actually Copy Share Image
“You were the one who wanted me to come here with you, so you'd better have the bloody manners to talk to… — Marian Keyes Little Boy Copy Share Image
“My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small… — Marian Keyes Depression 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
“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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“It was just that this was real life and no decision was clearly sign-posted. It's not like you take the right turning… — Marian Keyes Decision making 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
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 Born 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
“Perhaps the sadness of a divorce doesn’t actually disappear, she realized. Instead you have to incorporate it, learn to coexist with it” — Marian Keyes Divorce Copy Share Image
Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip… — Marian Keyes Alzheimer Copy Share Image
