251 Quotes by Marian Keyes

(The Other side of the Story)"The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass".

Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.