Marian Keyes

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.

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.

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

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.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

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.