Marian Keyes Quotes

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• I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

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  Shoes, People, Confusion

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.42, Penguin UK

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• Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

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  Relationship, Flower, Butterfly

  "Ask a grown-up: how do we measure love?" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

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  "The Other Side of the Story". Book by Marian Keyes, 2004.

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• 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 when the happiness would be taken away.

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  Taken, Thinking, Long

  Marian Keyes (1995). “Watermelon”, Dufour Editions

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• The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

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  Waiting, Stories, Sides

  "The other side of the story". Book by Marian Keyes, 2004.

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• You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

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  Love, Stories, Goes On

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.554, Penguin UK

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• People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the drugs work for a while and then they stop. Sometimes the alternative stuff works and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes you wonder if no outside interference makes any difference at all; if an illness is like a storm, if it simply has to run its course and, at the end of it, depending on how robust you are, you will be alive. Or you will be dead.

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  Running, Cancer, Differences

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• When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

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  Doors, Faces, Your Face

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• Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

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  Guru, Said, Mutual Respect

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• 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?

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  Vacation, Mourning, Special

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• My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

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  Stronger, Truth Is, Wiser

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• 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

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  Love Is, Alzheimer's, Dumb

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Last Chance Saloon”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.

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  Book, Writing, People

  "Marian Keyes: a life in books". Interview With Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

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  Love Is, Emotion, Difficult

  "Ask a grown-up: how do we measure love?" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

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  Cake, Underwear, Use

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• So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.

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  Book, Shoes, People

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• The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.

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  Men, High Heels, Sea

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• why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

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  Hurt, Moving, People

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.218, Penguin UK

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• I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

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  Dream, Partners, Wildest Dreams

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• The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

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  Book, Smell, Looks

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• Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

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  Eggs, Focus, Magic

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• I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

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  Hoodies, Safe, Feels

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• I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

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  Spiritual, Psychics, Special

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• I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can remember without the pain killing me" And the days were stacking up. And weeks. And months. It was now almost the middle of June and he'd died in February, but I still felt like I'd just woken from a horrible dream, that I was suspended in that stunned, paralyzed state between sleep and reality where I was grasping for, but couldn't get a handle on normality.

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  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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• 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.

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  Music, Artist, Men

  Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.135, Penguin UK

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