Top 100 Marian Keyes Quotes
#1. Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
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#2. You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
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#3. The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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#4. Some people can make their ears move - it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick.
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#5. Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.
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#6. And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.
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#7. She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven.
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#8. No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.
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#10. Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.
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#11. I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.
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#12. You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.
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#13. Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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#14. For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
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#15. sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It
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#16. However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will reveal just how bad they are.
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#17. I had thought the only person Neil loved was himself. That he probably shouted his own name when he was coming.
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#18. Todays uplifting phrase is love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse.
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#19. Smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.
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#21. No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.
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#22. I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)
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#23. You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
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#24. Nkechi never tried to hide her bottom. She was proud of it. Fascinating to me. Irish girls' lives were a constant quest for bottom-disguising or bottom-reducing clothing tactics. We can learn much from other cultures.
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#25. Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As
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#26. I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.
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#28. Not that anyone ever fancied someone because they were a kind person.
If that was the case Mother Teresa would have to fend them off with sticks.
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#29. I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
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#30. I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.
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#31. Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.
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#32. But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did.
I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway.
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#33. There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.
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#34. When God closes one door, He slams another in your face
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#35. I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled.
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#37. The ability to talk to other people seemed to be leaking out of me like air out of an old balloon.
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#38. As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has to be lived with, that it's better not to struggle.
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#39. Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In
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#40. I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
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#42. No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?
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#43. I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.
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#44. Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.
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#45. but I couldn't get through the day wearing clothes belonging to elderly people. I am not Alexa Chung
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#46. I think reviewers are sexist ... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.
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#47. Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's
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#48. I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.
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#50. He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree
well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
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#51. Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.
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#52. When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.
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#53. If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.
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#54. I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'
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#55. That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.
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#56. People promise to stick with their spouse 'for richer or poorer' but it's the 'for poorer' part that causes the worry. The big shock is that the 'for richer' bit can also cause problems.
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#57. Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets.
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#58. To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.
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#59. A cynical type might suggest that it was all a little too perfect. But a cynical type would be wrong.
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#60. As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. 'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract
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#62. I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
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#63. You could have nothing with a teenage daughter in the house, not mascara, not ankle boots, not breadknives, not sedatives; they took everything, selfish little bitches!
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#64. It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I'd be washed away in the deluge.
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#66. Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more?
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#67. You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you
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#68. I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it.
But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it?
Frame it?
Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?
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#69. My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
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#71. The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them.
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#72. Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.
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#73. Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.
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#74. Look at me, I believe in the craziest stuff and I have a really fun time.
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#75. Having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world
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#76. I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.
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#77. They were very, very kind to each other and, in my discombobulated state, this was soothing.
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#78. 20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hidebound by the silly, bourgeois rules of our society.
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#79. I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.
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#80. Dreaming. But I know it's real." "When I woke up this morning
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#81. But Lucy, I've no money."
I put my face up to his and smiled.
He smiled back.
"Frankly my dear," I beamed, "I don't give a damn."
I had always wanted to say that.
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#83. Human touch is as important as water and food and air and laughter and new shoes.
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#84. I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
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#85. Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't throw it all away just because your feelings are hurt.
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#86. One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter
-The Brightest Star in the Sky.
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#87. I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.
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#88. Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.
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#89. Didn't go in, just hovered outside like homeless person because (a) place was too small and Detta would have spotted me, and (b) once you're through doors of shop like that, if you try to leave without buying anything, they shoot you in the back with sniper's rifle.
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#90. I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.
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#92. Where's that guy with the coffee?' 'I'm here.' Mannix had appeared. 'You went to Costa Rica for the beans?
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#93. My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.
I nodded mutely.
'That's a bit what giving birth is like.
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#94. I still get awful depression. It's who I am.
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#95. In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.
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#96. Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.
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#97. Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.
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#98. (The Other side of the Story)"The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass".
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#99. I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
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#100. I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.
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