Grown Ups Quotes

“Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“Fight today’s war today. Leave tomorrow’s war until tomorrow.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“You try to disaster-proof your life. But the thing that causes all the trouble is something you’d never even thought about.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss. Momentarily the emptiness was unbearable.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“Those who hadn’t experienced the death of a parent [...] had an innocence that flew in the face of reality, an expectation that life would still deliver a fairy-tale ending.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“Here’s the deal: in a perfect world, sanitary protection would be freely available to all.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“Should you live each second to the full, grabbing every opportunity and making as many precious memories as possible? Or should you carefully salt resources away, having a comfortable buffer zone in place, in the event that disaster struck?
It was impossible to decide, because you never knew what was coming down the tracks.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“Not everyone likes an “ambitious” woman. When it’s said about a man it’s always in a good way. But a woman? Not so much.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, never mind in ten years' time. I can only live life with the stuff I know.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“I’ll be fifty and, seriously, what’s the age when a person finally feels safe and secure? Because I really thought it would have happened by now.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“shame”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he’d be”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“They shared a hostel with other broken, displaced people, from the worst parts of the world.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“And what had this to do with eating too much and making herself sick? If what her counsellor Peggy said was true, she’d been doing that to change her mood. Now she had no way to alter her feelings, and she had to make sense of them again”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability…To be alive is to be vulnerable’ Madeleine L’Engle”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“play”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“They’d sing and eat cake and carry on around”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“concussion”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“Now and again, a frantic feeling seized her with sudden force. It would come on without warning, a type of panic, a sense that there was something she’d left undone, which would have catastrophic consequences if it wasn’t addressed.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“Her outline kept slipping, like a wonky contact lens that wouldn’t sit on the iris. When other people were around, she could do the back-and-forth talk, but lately it felt like muscle memory, rather than genuine engagement. Now and again both her selves overlapped perfectly, clicked into place, and suddenly she was there, in the moment. Intense feelings would surge through her, both good and not-so-good, then her outline would detach again. She was living her life a short distance from herself.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“polite”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups

“of the short journey passed in silence.”
― Marian Keyes, Grown Ups