Quotes by Marian Keyes

Waiting to be better is the wrong approach. Its learning to live with it.

My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I hadn’t a job. I hadn’t any qualifications. I’d achieved nothing with my life. I’d never been happy. I had no husband or boyfriend.

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

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out.Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice.

People dont tend to employ me. Im the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and then they sack me. A film broker once told me, as she terminated my contract, that I have a misleading sort of face. Youre pretty, she complained. Your features are symmetrical and there was an article in Grazia that says human beings are programmed to find those with symmetrical features more pleasing to they eye. So this isnt my fault, I was simply responding to a biological imperative. Youve even teeth, so when you smile, you look...sweet, I suppose. But youre not, are you?I hope not, I said.You see, there you go again. Youre a smart-arse and youve no ability to filter your thoughts---And my thoughts are often abrasive.Exactly.Ill just get my brushes and sponges and leave.If you would.

I need you to get inside Waynes head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant way, Helen Walsh, youre a genius.He had a point. Im lazy and illogical. Ive limited people skills. Im easily bored and easily irritated. But I have moments of brilliance. They come and they go and I cant depend on them but they do happen.

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didnt know what or where home was.

Id rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

why cant we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

You will go on and meet someone else and Ill just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

Youve recognised a fundamental feature of an addicts life. Maintaining your habit is so important youve no real interest in anything else.

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

Hes a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so whats 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 youve promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.

He didnt even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

If he says he doesnt love you anymore and does love this other woman, youve got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he wont, but either way, youve got to live through this.

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you cant get over it, Get over talking about it.

If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you