Keep It in the Family Quotes

“...we're only ever our true selves when we think we are alone.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“CHAPTER 39 FINN Fuck.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“This is a place even angels avoid.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“I’m the mortar that binds the bricks together,”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“The more neglected the better.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Empathy is an alien emotion here.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“my hips are moving like Shakira’s.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“but I went because you do what your parents ask of you.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“folie à deux. It’s a shared psychosis of people with too close an emotional tie. It allows delusional belief to be transmitted from one person to another.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“I wonder how much pressure I would have to exert to rupture her windpipe and choke her to death.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“No one under this roof believes in compassion. Empathy is an alien emotion here.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“So Buzz and Woody are leaving messages for us on skirting boards, are they?’ Mia snaps. ‘Finn, I’m not going to rest until I know what’s in those cases.’ And if I know my wife like I think I do, she won’t.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“But I’ve grown to realise that when I don’t have blood on my hands, they are uncomfortably dry.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“show me a mother who doesn’t want to spend time with her son and I’ll show you someone who hasn’t raised him properly.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“If Dave is willing to do that to his son, what else might he be capable of?”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“You know what happened to him, a voice inside me whispers. I choose to ignore it.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“wish George were with us. It’s been five years since I saw him and I hoped he might have come back and found me by now. At eighteen, perhaps he’s now enrolled in the army and unable to take leave because he’s stationed somewhere else in the world?”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“text Jakub to bring me more on site tomorrow”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“If George and I had been on a register that people had paid attention to, then things might have turned out very differently for us.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“She doesn’t know I’m not on a call-out now. And she doesn’t know how much I lie to her or who I’m with now. I intend to keep it this way.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“I once hired a private detective to try and locate George. But several months and a few thousand pounds later, there was no proof that he ever existed beyond my memory. Not even a birth certificate,”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Maybe he’s still in the forces, his dark-blond curls now greying and cut military-grade short, his freckles perhaps fading with age. I picture him in his uniform, shiny medals with colourful ribbons attached to his jacket, rewards for successful tours of duty. But while I might no longer recognise him if he stood in front of me, I’d like to think that he is every inch the hero to others today as he was to me back then.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“My particular type, Primary Lateral Sclerosis, is rarer and slower than other versions and I should be grateful that I might live ten years if I’m lucky. Now”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Three years ago I was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. The”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“You know that stress and pushing yourself to the point of exhaustion can bring about complications.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Then I hesitate, taking one last look at the boy with the headphones. He will never know how unfortunate he is not to have met me.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Then I wash them down with a neat Jim Beam bourbon whiskey. It’s now early morning and, at this time, it’s either my last drink of the day or my first. I don’t feel so guilty when I think of it like that.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“I have a life away from my marriage.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“If Mia wants to think she wears the trousers and knows everything about me then I’m not going to try and persuade her otherwise. I have bigger fish to fry. She’s very different from anyone else I’ve dated.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family