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paths would have already crossed — Marian Keyes

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one. — Marian Keyes

If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you — Marian Keyes

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards.
(This Charming Man) — Marian Keyes

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs ... — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

and it mightn't be — Marian Keyes

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

Love and kindness go hand in hand. — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time. — Marian Keyes

I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism. — Marian Keyes

Optimism can be relearnt. — Marian Keyes

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen. — Marian Keyes

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 — Marian Keyes

Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts. — Marian Keyes

sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It — Marian Keyes

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser. — Marian Keyes

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out? — Marian Keyes

Why would we 'swing' when we had praying? — Marian Keyes

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

No one can make us feel any way unless we let them. — Marian Keyes

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all. — Marian Keyes

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know. — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure. — Marian Keyes

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people. — Marian Keyes

That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy! — Marian Keyes

Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling. — Marian Keyes

Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As — Marian Keyes

She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven. — Marian Keyes

Having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world — Marian Keyes

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter
-The Brightest Star in the Sky. — Marian Keyes

The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves. — Marian Keyes

No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last. — Marian Keyes

ends up sleeping in your bed. — Marian Keyes

Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard — Marian Keyes

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness. — Marian Keyes

I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings. — Marian Keyes

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier. — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. — Marian Keyes

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him. — Marian Keyes

Look at me, I believe in the craziest stuff and I have a really fun time. — Marian Keyes

You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction. — Marian Keyes

I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair? — Marian Keyes

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying. — Marian Keyes

but I couldn't get through the day wearing clothes belonging to elderly people. I am not Alexa Chung — Marian Keyes

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain? — Marian Keyes

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans. — Marian Keyes

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear. — Marian Keyes

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways. — Marian Keyes

Our health is our wealth. — Marian Keyes

Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it. — Marian Keyes

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative. — Marian Keyes

Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff? — Marian Keyes

I wanted to show her how disgusted I was by not eating a thing, but a chocolate cookie is a chocolate cookie. — Marian Keyes

Dreaming. But I know it's real." "When I woke up this morning — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

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

Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more? — Marian Keyes

Talk is cheap, but look at how people behave, not at what they say. — Marian Keyes

The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them. — Marian Keyes

Guilt is a self-indulgence. — Marian Keyes

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be. — Marian Keyes

Political correctness is a minefield — Marian Keyes

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers. — Marian Keyes

I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around. — Marian Keyes

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. — Marian Keyes

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on. — Marian Keyes

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot. — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

I still get awful depression. It's who I am. — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain. — Marian Keyes

Desserts. I ordered banoffee pie. — Marian Keyes

Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks. — Marian Keyes

Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period, — Marian Keyes

I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee. — Marian Keyes

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister. — Marian Keyes

Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In — Marian Keyes

Drink never drown anyone's sorrows," he went on. "It only teaches them how to swim. — Marian Keyes

Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. — Marian Keyes

Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity. — Marian Keyes

They were very, very kind to each other and, in my discombobulated state, this was soothing. — Marian Keyes

The ability to talk to other people seemed to be leaking out of me like air out of an old balloon. — Marian Keyes

Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws. — Marian Keyes

If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect. — Marian Keyes

Human touch is as important as water and food and air and laughter and new shoes. — Marian Keyes

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. — Marian Keyes

After a pause he says, 'Trust you to bring everything back to sweets.' He is a fine one to talk, him and his birds. — Marian Keyes

Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft. — Marian Keyes

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe. — Marian Keyes

Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right. — Marian Keyes

Rough as a badger's arse — Marian Keyes

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing. — Marian Keyes

It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I'd be washed away in the deluge. — Marian Keyes