Marley Quotes

“As much as I loved my band and the life that I was leading, I’d sacrifice it all to make the two people I loved most in the world happy again.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“I thanked the God of hard-ons … Erectimus? I think that was his name, or was that a transformer? Erectimus Prime? Anyway, I thanked him, the God of hard-ons, that rather than making eye contact with me, she still had her head tilted back and was staring up at the ceiling.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Thing is, Marls, is she’s not pissed off or angry, she’s broken. I fucking broke her … I broke us. She trusted me and I fucked it all up.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Y-you, Marley Layton, are my favouritist big brother called Marley. The best, my very bestest one.” George points her finger up at me as she speaks.
“I’m your only big brother called Marley.”
“This true, this is vrery, vrery true,” she slurs.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Shit happens to good people because that’s just the way life is.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“I’m so fucking jealous and I’ve no clue how to handle it, Marls,”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“You just don’t get it, do you? Read what’s written on my neck, mate. The only Mrs. Maca there will ever be is her. We will get back together. One of these days, it’ll happen.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Kitten,” is all that he whispers into her hair, kissing her head as he does.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“I’m still here, Ash. I can justify and explain my actions, but Maca’s not and I’ll never do that to him.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“How she has held her shit together and clawed her way back to becoming a functioning human being again, I will never know. I couldn’t have done it, but she did, and with the help of Cam, she’s in a good place.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“She always puts crisps in her sarnies.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“I think her and Cam work because he’s never tried to do that. Their love is different, much easier to be around, where George and Maca’s love was intense, bordering on obsessive. It was like they needed each other more than air. I don’t know how to describe it, really, but that’s how it came across as an outsider looking in.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Fuckeration; The meaning is that whatever you have gotten yourself into, it is one holy fucked up, fuckeration of a mess.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Oh, and that book? I hit delete and never showed it to a soul. Some stories are just best left untold.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Na, I’m getting a boner watching your bird and your sister while sitting next to you,” he laughed. “Yeah, me too.” “We’re going to hell,” he said with a smile. “Hope they have guitars.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“I could actually feel my balls and dick shrivelling and being replaced with a vagina over my breakdown.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“I can’t let her go and I won’t … not for the band, not for anyone. I’ll tell you straight up, Marls, if it comes to the band or G, she’ll win every time … Every. Fucking. Time.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Oh God,” she groans.
“Almost.” I tell her as I wink and hold my hand out, as if to shake hers. “Most call me Marley. They save the God title for when I’m making their toes curl.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley

“Does Georgia need anything?"
"Just you (Cam) I think, mate.”
― Lesley Jones, Marley