Marian Keyes Quotes

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.

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.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

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.

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

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

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

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Political correctness is a minefield

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

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

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

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

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

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

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.

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.