Marian Keyes Quotes

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

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?

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

I've kind of realized 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 realized I'm not special.

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

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

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

Optimism can be relearnt.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

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

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

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

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

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

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

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

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?

Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.

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

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.

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.

If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you

Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't throw it all away just because your feelings are hurt.