The One Quotes

“If you’ve got the opportunity to love someone as much as they love you, then grab it with both hands and hold on to it for dear life.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Maybe when you took it back to the basics, that's what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.- Jade”
― John Marrs, The One

“Maybe when you took it back to basics, that’s what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Sometimes, the grass is not greener on the other side, and we should stay in the field where we belong. And sometimes we just need to take a gamble and hope for the best.”
― John Marrs, The One

“What if it turns out our DNA doesn’t Match?” “Then we’ll be mindful that maybe we’ll need to put more effort into our relationship. Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’” “Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.”
― John Marrs, The One

“I also wanted to demonstrate how greedy we are as human beings. How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”
― John Marrs, The One

“There were others out there like him, which meant that Christopher was normal, just a different type of normal.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’” “Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Don't let the chance to be happy pass you by.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Even if it’s not physical between you two, it is emotional, and that’s the equivalent of an affair. - Sally”
― John Marrs, The One

“It’d be like suing gun manufacturers on behalf of anyone who’s ever been shot. It’s not the fault of the weapon, it’s the user.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Of course. It’s ingrained in everyone, isn’t it? Everyone wants to cheat, but it’s whether you’ve got a good enough reason to do it.”
― John Marrs, The One

“relationships didn’t need truth to make them work, they just needed one of them to possess a heart large enough to beat for both of them.”
― John Marrs, The One

“But then you walked into the pub and I thought my stomach had just fallen out of my arse.’ He smiled as Ellie stared at him, partly in wonder at why such opposing personalities had been Matched and partly because he was the least pretentious man she’d ever met, let alone been on a date with. ‘Honestly, Ellie, when I saw you come into the pub, I let out the longest fart, I thought I was going to fly across the room like a deflating balloon.’ Ellie”
― John Marrs, The One

“It’s that feeling you don’t get when you’re around anyone else, like nobody in the world matters when you’re in their company. Like you and them are this one, solitary...thing... And no matter what crap the world throws at you, you can get through it because you have them on your side.”
― John Marrs, The One

“In my spare time I question how the Galactic Empire built the Death Star without the rest of the universe noticing. Meanwhile you're out there finding genes nobody knew existed.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Christopher turned the volume up on the MP3 player strapped to his arm and ran to the beat of his Spotify playlist. Adele was the next artist to shuffle on and he wondered why all killers depicted in television dramas only ever listened to angry, shouty, heavy metal music—in the same way that all fictitious black criminals only ever listened to rap. Nobody ever killed or robbed a bank to the sounds of Rihanna or Justin Bieber.”
― John Marrs, The One

“How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Sometimes, the grass isn’t greener on the other side and we should stay in the field where we belong.”
― John Marrs, The One

“I just don’t think I’ll ever understand it,” said Amy. “I don’t think I’ll ever get my head around why someone could be compelled to take so many lives. What’s the point?” For the challenge, Christopher thought to himself. For the fun of it. For the history books. For having the balls and ambition to decide to be a serial killer rather than fall into it or be compelled to do it. To actively choose this life and then to actively stop it. Because nobody has ever done it like this before. And because there’s no other feeling quite like being in control of someone else’s life.”
― John Marrs, The One

“When you talk about him, it makes me feel that there’s so much I’ve missed out on,” she replied. “A family man who wanted a family of his own...that’s my idea of a perfect Match. I feel torn—I’m so pleased to have been Matched with him, yet I feel so sad that we weren’t even allowed to meet or be together. They say you can’t miss what you’ve never had, but that’s not true. I miss him so much, and I never even knew him.”
― John Marrs, The One

“It was her fault because she’d tried to chase the impossible – the love of a man who could never love her in return”
― John Marrs, The One

“Everyone knows I wear the pants in the relationship.

You do wear them honey, but ask yourself who buys them for you.”
― John Marrs, The One

“life should be lived, not viewed from afar.”
― John Marrs, The One

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables”
― John Marrs, The One

“Even your choice of fiction is macabre,” Amy continued, “Hannibal Rising, American Psycho, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Donald Trump’s autobiography”
― John Marrs, The One

“We have roughly 100 trillion cells in our bodies and inside each of them are two metres of DNA – if you unravelled them all, they’d stretch to the sun and back a hundred times.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Maybe when you took it back to basics, that’s what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets. Jade arrived back at the farm with her sleeping partner and was greeted by his brother who opened the passenger door and unclipped Kevin’s seat belt.”
― John Marrs, The One

“But I also wanted to demonstrate how greedy we are as human beings. How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”
― John Marrs, The One

“He identified himself as a primary psychopath, one who had been born with the condition—or gift, as he’d come to think of it—as opposed to being a secondary psychopath and a product of his environment.”
― John Marrs, The One