Top 100 Marian Keyes Quotes
#1. If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
Maeve Binchy
#2. The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
Neel Mukherjee
#3. Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
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#4. 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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#5. The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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#6. If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect.
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#7. 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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#8. Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.
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#9. 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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#10. Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards.
(This Charming Man)
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#11. 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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#12. 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 cracked shoes.
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#13. Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.
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#14. Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.
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#15. No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.
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#17. Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
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#18. Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.
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#19. 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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#20. You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.
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#21. It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying.
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#22. Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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#23. For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
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#24. sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#31. No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.
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#32. 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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#33. Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.
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#34. 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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#35. Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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#36. 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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#37. Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As
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#38. 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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#40. You think that all a cruel-looking man needs is the love of a good woman and then he won't be cruel any more. But he stays cruel and you eat your heart out.
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#41. 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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#42. I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.
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#43. 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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#45. I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.
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#46. Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.
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#47. Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.
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#48. 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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#49. There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.
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#50. Talk is cheap, but look at how people behave, not at what they say.
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#51. When God closes one door, He slams another in your face
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#52. 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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#55. I wanted to show her how disgusted I was by not eating a thing, but a chocolate cookie is a chocolate cookie.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. "But you've loads of shoes," he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don't get it, do they? They're definitely missing the shoe chromosome.
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#59. Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In
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#60. I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.
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#61. 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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#62. Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard
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#64. 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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#65. I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.
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#66. 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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#67. I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.
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#68. but I couldn't get through the day wearing clothes belonging to elderly people. I am not Alexa Chung
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#69. 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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#70. 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 men don't. Men please themselves.
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#71. But to me, butterflies were slightly sneaky; all they were were moths in
embroidered jackets. And, yes, moths were creepy and their flapping wings made a nasty, papery
sound--but at least they were honest
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#72. Ireland?" "Small wet place across the Irish Sea," Barry offered kindly. "Where they drink a lot?" Lisa said faintly. "And they never stop talking. That's the place.
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#73. 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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#74. The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.
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#75. 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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#76. Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.
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#87. 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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#88. Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets.
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#89. 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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#90. A cynical type might suggest that it was all a little too perfect. But a cynical type would be wrong.
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#91. Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period,
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#92. He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.
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#93. For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.
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#94. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I'd be washed away in the deluge.
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#100. He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
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