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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d3f1e32 | I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 069d308 | It's upsetting when the nice bloke you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it's nearly as bad when the bloke that you thought was an unreliable heartbreaker turns out to be uncomplicated and nice. | Marian Keyes | ||
| d58519c | Once the door to one disaster had opened, the possibilities for catastrophe seemed open-ended and I felt I'd no choice but to go along with my life as it unraveled. | love marriage | Marian Keyes | |
| e26d075 | The stars are always there, even in the daylight. Sometimes we just can't see them. | love marriage | Marian Keyes | |
| 2e5b03e | I've brought sandwiches." He indicated a brown paper bag. "Let's play a game." Startled, we looked each other in the eye. We both swallowed hard. I cleared my throat and asked, "What's the game?" "If I've managed to bring your favorite sandwich, you meet me again tomorrow." "I like cheese," I said cautiously. I was afraid of him producing turkey and cranberry, my most hated. "What kind of cheese?" he asked. "Any kind." "Go on. Be specific.".. | Marian Keyes | ||
| e271398 | Im sorry, I thought it would be better that way. Less painful, to just let it all fade away. | love marriage | Marian Keyes | |
| 727ecbf | Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff? | Marian Keyes | ||
| a9660ba | Hamstrung as I am with shortness and a tendency to roundness, which I need to watch like a hawk, I certainly don't look the part. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 88c3740 | Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche or Marian Keyes. You would not display the contents of your knicker and sock drawer, or your bathroom cabinet with its face creams and cough remedies, so why put off potential buyers with your taste in literature? | Linda Grant | ||
| a96af48 | Not that anyone ever fancied someone because they were a kind person. If that was the case Mother Teresa would have to fend them off with sticks. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 9096b23 | Guilt is a self-indulgence. | Marian Keyes | ||
| a4b9013 | How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such a way that we can fulfill the expectations we create. | high-aspirations matter-more pragmatic present realistic realistic-expectations relevance tension | Marian Deegan | |
| 5d2db61 | as you know, here at Randolph Media we reward hard work." Lisa twinkled prettily at the patent lie. Like many companies in the Western world, Randolph Media rewarded hard work with poor pay, increasing workloads, demotions and on-a-second's redundancies." | Marian Keyes | ||
| 74d26f7 | But, as we all know, the first law of shopping says that when you're urgently looking for something specific, you've no hope of finding it. | love marriage | Marian Keyes | |
| 8e86c6c | paths would have already crossed | Marian Keyes | ||
| 25d197c | When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it bas gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away? | Marian Keyes | ||
| db3e22a | Perhaps the sadness of a divorce doesn't actually disappear, she realized. Instead you have to incorporate it, learn to coexist with it | Marian Keyes | ||
| f565b2b | No one knows how strong they are until they have to be. | cheat fling love | Marian Keyes | |
| 127fe83 | worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 91778be | As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. 'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract | Marian Keyes | ||
| 84b91ff | and it mightn't be | Marian Keyes | ||
| a2d87cf | genuinely is | Marian Keyes | ||
| 47d78b4 | You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction. | Marian Keyes | ||
| e99f68e | Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more? | Marian Keyes | ||
| 84dcf26 | La corrente della vita mi spingeva in avanti, ma io resistevo. Preferivo il passato, non ancora convinta che con Shay fosse davvero finita. Quando lo avevo salutato sul traghetto non sapevo che sarebbero trascorsi quindici anni prima di rivederlo. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 032bb19 | I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time. | Marian Keyes | ||
| ef603c0 | It's a curse being dad's 'clever' child. He reads books the way other people take cold showers - they're good for you, but you're not expected to enjoy them. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 699ef23 | He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley? | cheat fling love | Marian Keyes | |
| 1cab6ea | Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part. | cheat fling love | Marian Keyes | |
| 2b4b0ac | He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him. | cheat fling love | Marian Keyes | |
| cf7152c | I employ this thing I called The Shovel List. | Chá de Sumiço - Marian Keyes | ||
| c51137b | If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this. | cheat fling love | Marian Keyes | |
| d30a939 | As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it. | cheat fling love | Marian Keyes | |
| 75d7856 | If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you | cheat fling love | Marian Keyes | |
| 21f3106 | He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Black pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley? | Marian Keyes | ||
| 32dd630 | 20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hidebound by the silly, bourgeois rules of our society. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 32763ae | You think that all a cruel-looking man needs is the love of a good woman and then he won't be cruel any more. But he stays cruel and you eat your heart out. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 67ac865 | After a pause he says, 'Trust you to bring everything back to sweets.' He is a fine one to talk, him and his birds. | Marian Keyes | ||
| b705e90 | 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 | ||
| 7297a17 | When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away? | Marian Keyes | ||
| 212a44a | 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 | ||
| 767c5d5 | They were very, very kind to each other and, in my discombobulated state, this was soothing. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 9dfb05e | Anton and I went to see her in her office in Soho. It was less than a fortnight before I gave birth to Ema so getting me there was a huge undertaking, like crating and transporting a sick elephant. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 8df1d26 | It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I'd be washed away in the deluge. | Marian Keyes |