“The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them.” — Marian Keyes Astronomy Copy Share Image
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes Breakup Copy Share Image
For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness. — Marian Keyes Darkness Copy Share Image
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was… — Marian Keyes Gratitude Copy Share Image
“Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't… — Marian Keyes Betrayal 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
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Black pepper them to death? Compliment them into a… — Marian Keyes Betrayal 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 Copy Share Image
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because… — Marian Keyes Clever Copy Share Image
They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it… — Marian Keyes Agony 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
The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and… — Marian Keyes Contradiction Copy Share Image
I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in… — Marian Keyes Depression 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 Desert Copy Share Image
For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50… — 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
“Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.” — Marian Keyes Hathaway Copy Share Image
“Todays uplifting phrase is "love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only… — Marian Keyes Love Your Body Copy Share Image
Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. The” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right. — Marian Keyes Pissed off Copy Share Image
I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“but I couldn’t get through the day wearing clothes belonging to elderly people. I am not Alexa Chung” — Marian Keyes Elderly 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 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… — Marian Keyes Cry 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 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 Copy Share Image
As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has… — Marian Keyes Astronomy Copy Share Image
I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so… — Marian Keyes 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 Copy Share Image
I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Unless it was an elaborate double-bluff on Wayne’s part and it was so obvious as to be not obvious at all … Christ, it… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Worse, neither of us has liked any of the other’s Facebook posts, the modern equivalent of pistols at dawn.” — Marian Keyes Twitter Copy Share Image
“Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways. — Marian Keyes Denial Copy Share Image
I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
