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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
(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
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
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
— 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In
— Marian Keyes
Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.
— 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
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