“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, quote from Angels
“That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will reveal just how bad they are.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“Once the door to one disaster had opened, the possibilities for catastrophe seemed open-ended and I felt I'd no choice but to go along with my life as it unraveled.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“The stars are always there, even in the daylight. Sometimes we just can't see them.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“You don't have to sleep with someone, you can be unfaithful with your emotions.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“Im sorry, I thought it would be better that way. Less painful, to just let it all fade away.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
“La corrente della vita mi spingeva in avanti, ma io resistevo. Preferivo il passato, non ancora convinta che con Shay fosse davvero finita. Quando lo avevo salutato sul traghetto non sapevo che sarebbero trascorsi quindici anni prima di rivederlo.”
― Marian Keyes, quote from Angels
Marian Keyes
Born place: in Limerick, Ireland
Born date September 10, 1963
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“I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
“I'm going to kiss you now,' I whispered. Rhode lifted his eyes to mine. 'I was hoping you would say that,' he whispered back, and we both cracked a smile. 'Lenah,' he said, and I could feel his body heat humming off him. 'What will I do without you?'
I shivered as one word travelled through me.
'Live.”
― Rebecca Maizel, quote from Stolen Nights
“Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?”
― Buchi Emecheta, quote from Second Class Citizen
“Better to start too slowly and build up,” said a piece of text in italics, “than start too quickly and give up.”
― Nicci French, quote from Secret Smile
“With the thought of power, men's hearts darken, with the vision of wealth, morals and values crumble, but that all be comes secondary to love. - Shamus Hennicot”
― Richard Doetsch, quote from The 13th Hour
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