Quotes About Marian Keyes

I employ this thing I called The Shovel List." "A shovel..?" "No, a shovel list. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much I want to hit them in the face with a shovel.

He'd done his walls with paint from Holy Basil. God, I yearned for their colors. I hadn't been able to afford them myself but I knew their color chart like the back of my hand. His hall was done in Gangrene, his stairs in Agony and his living room--unless I was very much mistaken--in Dead Whale. Colors I personally very much approved of.

I'm seized by sudden horrible fear – the thought of living without carbs is terrifying.

Even though she was weird and saved money and hadn't had sex until she got married, I was still very fond of her.

Where's that guy with the coffee?' 'I'm here.' Mannix had appeared. 'You went to Costa Rica for the beans?

Of course I'll respect you in the morning,' she reassured. 'I might disparage you a bit in the afternoon, mind,' she added. 'But I can guarantee my undivided respect in the morning.

However, my sense of hospitality decreases in direct proportion to the number of glasses of wine that I've had, so by dessert and coffee time I am usually far too relaxed (all right then, far too drunk, if you will insist on calling a spade a spade) and no longer feel any need to clear the table.

Mum insists on calling Sat Nav the Talking Map, like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.

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.

Lately she'd been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes. Pat Conroy—

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.

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.