Top 100 John Marrs Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “Really, you have no idea how it feels when you meet the one, do you? How, when you’re with them, the whole world melts away and you feel like you’ve been hit by the force of a tsunami. And how nobody else in the world exists in that moment apart from you and him.”

— John Marrs

54. “No matter how death happens, the pain is hideous.”

— John Marrs

55. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.”

— John Marrs

56. “Don’t worry, the only skeletons in my closet belong to the mice.”

— John Marrs

57. “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

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

— John Marrs

59. “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

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. “It’s that feeling you don’t get when you’re around anyone else, like nobody in the world matters when you’re in their company. Like you and them are this one, solitary... thing... And no matter what crap the world throws at you, you can get through it because you have them on your side.”

— John Marrs

62. “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

63. “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

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

— John Marrs

65. “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

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

— John Marrs

67. “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

68. “Ryan’s grin disappeared and he leaned in to whisper in my ear. ‘If I were you, I’d go home and check on Effie as soon as you can. Because I’d hate to think what she might have done after I finished with her this afternoon.”

— John Marrs

69. “He was her only love, but his paranoia and insecurities wouldn’t allow him to believe that. My mother was not strong enough to leave him. She tried her best to please him and win his trust, but when you accuse someone so often, eventually they will give in and prove you right.”

— John Marrs

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

— John Marrs

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

— John Marrs

72. “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

73. “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

74. “It’d be like suing gun manufacturers on behalf of anyone who’s ever been shot. It’s not the fault of the weapon, it’s the user.”

— John Marrs

75. “My memories of him didn’t disappear just because he did.”

— John Marrs

76. “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

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

— John Marrs

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “For the more vulnerable out there, once the darkness falls, so do their barriers. Night-time is their enemy, because with fewer visible distractions there’s more opportunity to dwell on how hopeless their lives have become.”

— John Marrs

82. “I went from couture to velour.”

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83. “Over dinner, she’ll keep me up to speed with who she’s seen and what they’re up to, but does she ever long to be among them? Watching isn’t living, is it?”

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84. “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

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

— John Marrs

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

— John Marrs

87. “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

88. “Sometimes it’s good to open up what you’ve got locked up in there.” He taps his head.”

— John Marrs

89. “If it was cancer or a heart condition that had killed Charlotte, people might have related to me better, because many people have lost someone to one of those illnesses. But when it’s an invisible problem like mental health or suicide, people aren’t sure how to talk about it. They’d rather say nothing than end up saying something insensitive, stupid or becoming tongue-tied. It made for a lonelier life for me, though.”

— 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. “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

92. “Stones had been cast and glasshouses lay in shards all around us. Inside I was dead; it was time for my exterior to follow suit.”

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93. “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

94. “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

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

— John Marrs

96. “Stones had been cast and glasshouses lay in shards all around us.”

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97. “So much of what you believe – or what you have convinced yourself to be true – can be flipped on its head quicker than you can ever imagine.”

— John Marrs

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

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99. “And with a final anxious sigh, he closed his eyes and wondered if God would listen when he apologised for all he had done.”

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100. “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