Quotes from Marian Keyes

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

Ireland?" "Small wet place across the Irish Sea," Barry offered kindly. "Where they drink a lot?" Lisa said faintly. "And they never stop talking. That's the place.

That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!

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

sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It

One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter.

Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. The

My personal brand was, 'In recovery, but still great fun'.

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

But you felt safe." "What sort of safe?" "Safe for me. Safe from harm. Every kind of safe.

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

I was in so much pain that I couldn't imagine not feeling it

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?

I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.

I'm going to be me, whether it's good or bad

having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world

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.

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.

I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.

Some people can make their ears move—it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick.

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

ends up sleeping in your bed.

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

Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In