Marian Keyes Quotes - Page 2

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• Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

  Marian Keyes

  Music, Artist, Men

  Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.135, Penguin UK

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• I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can remember without the pain killing me" And the days were stacking up. And weeks. And months. It was now almost the middle of June and he'd died in February, but I still felt like I'd just woken from a horrible dream, that I was suspended in that stunned, paralyzed state between sleep and reality where I was grasping for, but couldn't get a handle on normality.

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  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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• I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

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  Choices, Nails, Different

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• 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.

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  Love You, World, Want

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• smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.

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  Letting Go, Dream, Attitude

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• I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

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  Depression, Space, People

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• How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

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  Laughing, Future Planning, Future Plans

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.550, Penguin UK

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

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  Pain, Spring, Chinese

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities”, p.72, Zondervan

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• Love and kindness go hand in hand.

  Marian Keyes

  Kindness, Hands, Love And Kindness

  "Ask a grown-up: how do we measure love?" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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

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  Stars, Sky, One Day

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• 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

  Jobs, Fear, Believe

  "Anybody Out There". Book by Marian Keyes, February 8, 2007.

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• 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

  Real, Recovery, Addiction

  Marian Keyes (2005). “Rachel's Holiday”, p.245, Penguin UK

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

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  Shy, Introverted

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• ... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.

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  Flower, Order, Games

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

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  Despair, Together, Fleeting

  Marian Keyes (2008). “This Charming Man”, ePenguin

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

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  People, Harder, My Own

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• It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

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  Real, Decision, Gains

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

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  Relationship, Broken Heart, Breakup

  Marian Keyes (1995). “Watermelon”, Dufour Editions

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• They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.

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  Running, Cutting, Agony

  Marian Keyes (2005). “Rachel's Holiday”, p.218, Penguin UK

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• God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. Where ominous music comes on-screen so you can't possibly mistake him. Where someone asks you to choose between playing with the beautiful princess in the fragrant garden and being eaten by the hideous monster in the foul-smelling pit. Not exactly a difficult one, now is it? Not something that you would agonize over, or that would make you lose a night's sleep?

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  Beautiful, Mistake, Hero

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• I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

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  Carrots

  Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.216, Penguin UK

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• 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?

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  Men, Leather Pants, Black

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

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  Mouths, Guilty, Feels

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• 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.

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  Our Generation, Voice, Comforting

  "Bookreporter.com" Interview, www.bookreporter.com. May 7, 2004.

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

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  Creative, Want, Bitter

  Marian Keyes (2008). “This Charming Man”, ePenguin

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