Top 140 Marian Keyes Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Is this what life is all about? To bring us face to face with our worst fears until they no longer scare us?”

— Marian Keyes

102. “You’ve recognised a fundamental feature of an addict’s life. Maintaining your habit is so important you’ve no real interest in anything else.”

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

105. “I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I’ve been a crock from very early on.”

— Marian Keyes

106. “I’d always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.”

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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. “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

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

120. “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

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

130. “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

131. “Guilt is a self-indulgence.”

— Marian Keyes

132. “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

133. “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

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes

136. “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

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

— Marian Keyes

138. “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

139. “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

140. “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

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

— Marian Keyes

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

— Marian Keyes