Marian Keyes quotes

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier. (Marian Keyes)

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

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

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

Marian Keyes

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.

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

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

Marian Keyes

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

Marian Keyes

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face.

Marian Keyes

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

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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. (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

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.

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

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

Marian Keyes

Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

Marian Keyes

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

Marian Keyes

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.'

Marian Keyes

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

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

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)

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

Marian Keyes

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

Marian Keyes

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.

Marian Keyes

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.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes

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Occupation: Irish Writer
Born: September 10, 1963
Quotes count: 51

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