Marian Keyes Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Party, Shoes, Would Be

  "Marian Keyes: 'I thought I'd never be able to write again'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2013.

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

  Marian Keyes

  Writing, Proud, Reader

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• Optimism can be relearnt.

  Marian Keyes

  Optimism

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

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  Grey, Eyesight

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

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  Scare, Pissed Off, Said

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• 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?

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  Mother, Giving, Choices

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

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  Party, People, Dinner

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• Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.

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  Nice, Princess, Eye

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

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  Who I Am, Awful, Stills

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Writing, Opera

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• 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.

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  Clever, Men, Ideas

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• 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.

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  House, Personality, Despair

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

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  Feel Good, Darkness, Fiction

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

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  Writing, Today Is The Day, Wake Up

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

  Marian Keyes

  Mind, Chicks, Worst

  "This much I know". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2003.

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

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  Cutting, Water, Tears

  Marian Keyes (2007). “Anybody Out There”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)

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  Years, Shoes, Clothes

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

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  Mean, Might, Territory

  Marian Keyes (2009). “The Brightest Star in the Sky”, p.91, Penguin UK

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

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  Pain, Infinite, Pleasure

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.218, Penguin UK

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

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  World, Unusual, Unpredictable

  Marian Keyes (1996). “Lucy Sullivan is getting married”, Poolbeg Pr Ltd

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• My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.I nodded mutely.'That's a bit what giving birth is like.

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  Cowboy, Opposites, Two

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities”, p.110, Zondervan

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• For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.

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  Hands, Knowing, Broken

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

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  Thinking, Denial, Way

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• 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.

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  Believe, Sleep, Writing

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

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  Doubt, Suffering, Circumstances

  "Give the guy a break" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2002.

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