Top 120 John Marrs Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Despite threats to their kids’ lives, they still prioritise sharing their fears with the world before they scuttle off to rescue their little ones. Share then react. I love it.”

— John Marrs

52. “What if it turns out our DNA doesn’t Match?” “Then we’ll be mindful that maybe we’ll need to put more effort into our relationship. Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’” “Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.”

— John Marrs

53. “Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.’ – Aldous Huxley.”

— John Marrs

54. “Oh this place is just delightful,’ replied Eric, making no attempt to disguise his disdain. ‘A bedroom that reeks of stale feet, people falling through ceilings, and German techno music deafening me. What more could I ask for?”

— John Marrs

55. “Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions about them.”

— John Marrs

56. “The law doesn’t always take into account morals, and sometimes in doing the wrong thing we’re also doing the right thing.”

— John Marrs

57. “How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”

— John Marrs

58. “I thought that having a baby meant that I would always be loved by someone until the day I died. I was wrong. Being a mother is no guarantee of anything.”

— John Marrs

59. “Despite her maturity, Mary was easily hoodwinked; that’s the problem with those who only ever see the good in people. I found it easy to appear saddened as she recounted some of the horrors callers had told her. Secretly, I couldn’t wait until she let go of my reins and I could experience their suffering first-hand.”

— John Marrs

60. “For him, you were a welcome distraction from it. When you and he were texting or talking, he’d forget about what was happening to his body. He became a different person... He was my little boy again.”

— John Marrs

61. “Everyone wants to cheat, but it’s whether you’ve got a good enough reason to do it. – Deepak.”

— John Marrs

62. “You’re stronger than us. Once you find your anchor never let go of it. No matter what.”

— John Marrs

63. “I watched as Ryan’s fists clenched ever-so-slightly and he shifted his eyes towards mine. ‘There’s a reason they call depression a silent killer.”

— John Marrs

64. “For the first time since her father disappeared from her life, I feel a bond between us. I love her more than anything I have ever loved or will ever love again. And nothing she does will ever change that.”

— John Marrs

65. “It wasn’t just a crush, she wasn’t feeling sorry for him and it wasn’t because of Kevin’s illness. It was bigger than that, and wasn’t something that was going to burn out after he did. It was love in its purest form – and it scared her to death.”

— John Marrs

66. “It was her fault because she’d tried to chase the impossible – the love of a man who could never love her in return.”

— John Marrs

67. “He didn’t doubt the man was reliving the moment of collision over and over again, because so was he. It was funny, he thought, they had both killed the same person but only one of them was laughing.”

— John Marrs

68. “I guess it was easier to hide her sadness behind the written word than to disguise the emptiness in her voice.”

— John Marrs

69. “But since being part of a couple he’d learned relationships didn’t need truth to make them work, they just needed one of them to possess a heart large enough to beat for both of them.”

— John Marrs

70. “Sometimes days can pass and I realise I haven’t had a proper conversation in almost a week.”

— John Marrs

71. “But I’m part of the world and I’m telling you what I am. You won’t listen. You don’t have to understand something to accept it. You don’t know how a rocket flies into space, but you accept that it does.”

— John Marrs

72. “The essence of lying is in deception, not words.’ – John Ruskin.”

— John Marrs

73. “There were others out there like him, which meant that Christopher was normal, just a different type of normal.”

— John Marrs

74. “For the briefest of moments, I could see myself becoming like her, surrounded by people but so desperately alone, too set in her ways to take a risk. It scared me to death.”

— John Marrs

75. “The more neglected the better.”

— John Marrs

76. “Of course. It’s ingrained in everyone, isn’t it? Everyone wants to cheat, but it’s whether you’ve got a good enough reason to do it.”

— John Marrs

77. “But the greatest moments of your life are exactly that – just moments. And by their design, moments don’t last.”

— John Marrs

78. “This is a place even angels avoid.”

— John Marrs

79. “I no longer had any choice in what to do next. I knew I had to go and see the only person who could bring an end to all of this, and beg the woman who killed my wife and baby to show me mercy.”

— John Marrs

80. “He grabbed a rolling pin from the countertop and, with much more force than necessary, smashed her teeth into tiny fragments. He pulled the cloth containing her teeth from her throat, folded it up neatly and put it in his bag. He didn’t want anyone finding his DNA in her mouth.”

— John Marrs

81. “I don’t believe anyone who claims to have no regrets. They’re lying to themselves. We all have them.”

— John Marrs

82. “What we are never changes, Tommy, it read, but who we are never stops changing. Remember me better than I am. Jake.”

— John Marrs

83. “I went from couture to velour.”

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84. “In the end, it didn’t matter, because she couldn’t rewrite the past. She could only ensure she didn’t repeat her mistakes.”

— John Marrs

85. “His breath was wheezy and crackly, too weak for asthma and more likely to be emphysema. The poor bastard really was going to be better off dead.”

— John Marrs

86. “I questioned what was missing in my father’s make-up that rendered him unable to keep hold of Doreen.”

— John Marrs

87. “Your social media is every bit as much of who you are as the clothes you wear, the bars you check into, the music you share, the car that drives you or who you date. Everyone judges you on them – your mates, teachers, Uni recruiters and employers.”

— John Marrs

88. “Sometimes when life gives you lemons, you need to fill your glass with more gin.”

— John Marrs

89. “That all action in the universe creates a reaction that will return to you. That’s why you are where you are now.”

— John Marrs

90. “Christopher turned the volume up on the MP3 player strapped to his arm and ran to the beat of his Spotify playlist. Adele was the next artist to shuffle on and he wondered why all killers depicted in television dramas only ever listened to angry, shouty, heavy metal music – in the same way that all fictitious black criminals only ever listened to rap. Nobody ever killed or robbed a bank to the sounds of Rihanna or Justin Bieber.”

— John Marrs

91. “If I wasn’t crying, I was numb. If I wasn’t numb, I was suffocating. If I wasn’t suffocating, I was crying. And so on and so on. A never-ending circle of shittery.”

— John Marrs

92. “With his brown chinos, white jacket and red hair he resembled a raspberry ice cream.”

— John Marrs

93. “I’ve learned the hard way that you can never trust a good-looking man who knows the power of his own appearance.”

— John Marrs

94. “During the many evenings she’d spent babysitting her nieces and nephew, she’d ached to have the same for herself, someone to love unconditionally. Of course she loved her sisters’ kids, but it wasn’t the same at all. She dreamed of having someone she had helped to create and mold, someone who depended on her, who needed her, who would always seek her out for guidance and who, until her dying day, would call her “Mum.”

— John Marrs

95. “Louder!’ he repeated, specks of saliva landing on her cheek. ‘Say it louder!”

— John Marrs

96. “There is just one lesson I have learned from the life we share. And it is this: everything that is wrong with me is wrong with you too. We are one and the same. When I die, your flame will also extinguish.”

— John Marrs

97. “In my spare time I question how the Galactic Empire built the Death Star without the rest of the universe noticing. Meanwhile you’re out there finding genes nobody knew existed.”

— John Marrs

98. “If you’re gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty. Marilyn Monroe.”

— John Marrs

99. “Nothing but the sound of their last breaths and the coastal wind howling through their phones as they fell five hundred and thirty feet into the water below.”

— John Marrs

100. “Nicknamed by colleagues as Jekyll for his split personality and ability to flip from friend to foe with one wrong word, Hyde shuns the limelight in favour of the shadows.”

— John Marrs