My Favourite Mistake Quotes

“Who was Anna? What was she like?’ And I’d tell them, if I could: I was an imperfect person who made mistakes, did strange, selfish things and at times just baffled myself. But I tried to do better and when it didn’t come right the first time, I tried again.”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“Amplifying my gratitude was the bittersweet insight that time moves relentlessly on: it gives and takes, removes and replaces.”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“but that’s the thing about humans, we can’t know until we know.”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“Probably a full seven years of my life had been wasted constructing complaints in a manner which made the fucker-upper still like me. Same with over-apologetic, explanatory emails of refusal. It was definitely a woman thing. Meanwhile, men tap out a flat, ‘Can’t do. Enjoy.’ And carry on about their business without worrying, Was I too abrupt? Have I offended them?”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“Like every woman I’d spent my life being told nope, you’re doing it wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. You’re too serious, too short, too confident, too flat-chested, too ambitious, too repressed, too hard, too flirty, too fat, too thin, too old, too hairy, too angry, too prissy, too messy, too stupid, too opinionated, too lazy, too emotional, too …”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“The thing I realized is that everyone has times when we’re forced to stop. To pause and take a look around, so we can see what we have, what we might want … It’s a good thing.”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“As everyone logged off, I had a moment of deep calm: I can’t do this any more. It wasn’t the first time I’d thought it, but it was the first time I knew it was true.”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“Some advice for you, Anna, never marry a man you plan to change.”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“But we all have our ways of making the unbearable bearable and I’d prefer a positive spin than a negative.)”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake

“Courtney hasn’t come in.’ Shrill with stress, Emilien was balancing four fried breakfasts on his arms. ‘She’s not at home and she’s not answering her mobile.’ ‘But …’ Courtney hadn’t even been drinking last night at Ben’s. Unless she had abandoned that plan and was currently sleeping off a hangover in a bed other than her own? And that was the least-worst scenario. ‘Let me see what I can find out.’ I grabbed three muffins and hurried upstairs to the bridal suite. Last night after I’d slunk, devastated, out of”
― Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake