Marian Keyes citations

“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?”

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

“What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.”

“I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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)”

“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”

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

“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.”

“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”

“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard”

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

“Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.”

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

“I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.”

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