Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. — Marian Keyes Approach 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
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 Believe Copy Share Image
The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass. — Marian Keyes Breathe 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 Family Copy Share Image
“Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.” — Marian Keyes Time Copy Share Image
When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff… — Marian Keyes Ambition Copy Share Image
In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear. — Marian Keyes Pleasant Copy Share Image
People promise to stick with their spouse 'for richer or poorer' but it's the 'for poorer' part that causes the worry. The… — Marian Keyes Also 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 Able Copy Share Image
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the… — Marian Keyes Annoying 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
“The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move them, sometimes a few feet,… — Marian Keyes End of the day Copy Share Image
“Instead of thinking, “Why me?” I think, “Why not me?”’ Extract from One Blink at a Time In” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image