Rachel's Holiday Quotes

“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.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I hadn’t a job. I hadn’t any qualifications. I’d achieved nothing with my life. I’d never been happy. I had no husband or boyfriend.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“Talk is cheap, but look at how people behave, not at what they say.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“Even though she was weird and saved money and hadn’t had sex until she got married, I was still very fond of her.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“Call off the search for a “why”, Rachel,’ she finished on. ‘You don’t need it.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“I’d always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“I wanted to show her how disgusted I was by not eating a thing, but a chocolate cookie is a chocolate cookie.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“We have tested and tasted too much, lover, through a chink too wide, there comes in no wonder.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“There are some women, who, when heartbroken, have no interest whatsoever in other men. I wasn’t one of them. On the contrary, I yearned for male approval as a form of restoration. Call me shallow, call me needy, call me whatever you like so long as you call me.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“arrived here he was still only a senator.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“I can’t sleep easy if there’s an open container of savoury snacks in the house.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“noticed that he had small hands and, worse again, small feet. You could barely see his shoes under the cuffs of his trousers. I hated men with small hands and feet. It made them seem very unmanly, like imps or gnomes.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“positively”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“And not actually the great sacrifice that I’m making”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“Wasn’t this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period,”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I’d be washed away in the deluge.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“I had thought the only person Neil loved was himself. That he probably shouted his own name when he was coming.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven.”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday

“paths would have already crossed”
― Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday