Top 140 Marian Keyes Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “You know what it’s like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it’s only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can’t be with you for longer, or because you don’t get the chance to know them better, isn’t it better to be glad that you met them at all?”

— Marian Keyes

102. “Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.”

— Marian Keyes

103. “I’m proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.”

— Marian Keyes

104. “Talk is cheap, but look at how people behave, not at what they say.”

— Marian Keyes

105. “It is my honour to act as your ceiling.”

— Marian Keyes

106. “Worse, neither of us has liked any of the other’s Facebook posts, the modern equivalent of pistols at dawn.”

— Marian Keyes

107. “I don’t want to be dead. I’m curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?”

— Marian Keyes

108. “A cynical type might suggest that it was all a little too perfect. But a cynical type would be wrong.”

— Marian Keyes

109. “I remember reading somewhere that the chemicals produced in the brain by a lengthy Twitter session are similar to those produced by cocaine.”

— Marian Keyes

110. “Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.”

— Marian Keyes

111. “I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.”

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112. “Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I’m forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to, there’s no way I’d reveal this elderly body to a new man. It’d be like Game of Thrones when Melisandra takes off her necklace and ages nine hundred years.”

— Marian Keyes

113. “You have a magnificent moustache. You must be very proud of it.”

— Marian Keyes

114. “No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.”

— Marian Keyes

115. “Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.”

— Marian Keyes

116. “You have the look of someone who’ll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.”

— Marian Keyes

117. “I awake. I don’t mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.”

— Marian Keyes

118. “Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss.”

— Marian Keyes

119. “A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn’t ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had’t died.”

— Marian Keyes

120. “One day we’ll all be dead and none of this will matter.”

— Marian Keyes

121. “Falling in love leaves you open, relationships mean pain.”

— Marian Keyes

122. “If there had been a cost for calling an ambulance, I wouldn’t have done it. I couldn’t have afforded it. I would have let myself die.”

— Marian Keyes

123. “You could have nothing with a teenage daughter in the house, not mascara, not ankle boots, not breadknives, not sedatives; they took everything, selfish little bitches!”

— Marian Keyes

124. “Sometimes nothing is the very best thing one can do.”

— Marian Keyes

125. “There was no point trying to escape her loneliness through a new interest.”

— Marian Keyes

126. “You try to disaster-proof your life. But the thing that causes all the trouble is something you’d never even thought about.”

— Marian Keyes

127. “My personal brand was, ‘In recovery, but still great fun’.”

— Marian Keyes

128. “I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.”

— Marian Keyes

129. “This is... life, where hearts get kicked and bruised and broken, but somehow they still keep beating.”

— Marian Keyes

130. “I was in so much pain that I couldn’t imagine not feeling it.”

— Marian Keyes

131. “It might be uncomfortable. But it’s an opportunity. An opportunity for what? Personal growth. Internally, I sighed. Wretched personal growth. Always so unpleasant.”

— Marian Keyes

132. “I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.”

— Marian Keyes

133. “Who’s in charge around here? I’d like to complain about my life. I distinctly ordered a happy life with a loving husband to go with my newborn baby and what was this shoddy travesty that I’d been served up instead?”

— Marian Keyes

134. “In the darkness she wrapped her arms around him and pressed herself against his snuggly warmth, a blissful hum in her veins. She was safe and loved, in bed with her man.”

— Marian Keyes

135. “It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don’t care whether you have it or not.”

— Marian Keyes

136. “I’m going to be me, whether it’s good or bad.”

— Marian Keyes

137. “One can never go back. You know that.”

— Marian Keyes

138. “Guilt is a self-indulgence.”

— Marian Keyes

139. “As always she was kitted out in the pristine pastels of baby clothes and her little plimsolls were so white my eyes ached. To look directly at them one would need a piece of cardboard with a hole in it, of the type used for viewing a solar eclipse.”

— Marian Keyes

140. “That was the great thing about being not-young: knowing through practical experience that feelings, even the worst of them, calm down and eventually ease. They’re probably not gone forever – that was another thing I’d learnt: the notion of ‘closure’ is unrealistic. If I’d felt an emotion once, it stayed on file for-ev-er and could be reactivated if the conditions were right – or, more accurately, wrong.”

— Marian Keyes

141. “Call off the search for a “why”, Rachel,’ she finished on. ‘You don’t need it.”

— Marian Keyes

142. “Life was getting dark around the edges. It was like he was moving through a tunnel that was becoming narrower and blacker and more choked and airless, and soon there would be nothing left for him to breathe and no room for him to move.”

— Marian Keyes