Marian Keyes Short Quotes

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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

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Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

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Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.

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

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I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

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

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As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

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Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

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Take up car maintenance and find the class is full of other thirty-something women like me, looking for a fella.

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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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I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

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Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

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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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Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.

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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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No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

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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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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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