Quote

Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.

Marian Keyes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Great
Minsk
Pissed
Sounded
Scare
Someone
Right

More quotes by Marian Keyes

Image
Political correctness is a minefield
Marian Keyes
Image
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.
Marian Keyes
Image
The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.
Marian Keyes
Image
Optimism can be relearnt.
Marian Keyes
Image
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
Marian Keyes
Image
Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
Marian Keyes
Image
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.
Marian Keyes
Image
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.
Marian Keyes
Image
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.
Marian Keyes
Image
Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
Marian Keyes
Image
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.
Marian Keyes
Image
Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
Marian Keyes
Image
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
Marian Keyes
Image
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.
Marian Keyes
Image
The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Marian Keyes
Image
Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
Marian Keyes
Image
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
Marian Keyes
Image
I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
Marian Keyes
Image
smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.
Marian Keyes
Image
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.
Marian Keyes