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Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1) QUOTES

Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1) QUOTES

1 " Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

2 " when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

3 " Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.
Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

4 " If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

5 " I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out.
Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

6 " No one knows how strong they are until they have to be. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

7 " He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley? "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

8 " Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

9 " He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

10 " If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

11 " As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

12 " If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

13 " Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't throw it all away just because your feelings are hurt. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

14 " In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

15 " The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon) "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

16 " You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all? "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

17 " God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. Where ominous music comes on-screen so you can't possibly mistake him. Where someone asks you to choose between playing with the beautiful princess in the fragrant garden and being eaten by the hideous monster in the foul-smelling pit. Not exactly a difficult one, now is it? Not something that you would agonize over, or that would make you lose a night's sleep? "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

18 " I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

19 " Temporary Insanity had come a-knocking and I had shouted "Come on in the door is open." Luckily, Reality had come unexpectedly and found Temporary Insanity roaming the corridors of my mind unchecked, going into rooms, opening cupboards, reading my letters, looking in my underwear drawer, that kind of thing. Reality had run and got Sanity. And after a tussle, they both had managed to throw out Temporary Insanity and slam the door in his face. Temporary Insanity now lay on the gravel in the driveway of my mind, panting and furious, shouting, "She invited me in, you know. She asked me in. She wanted me there. "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

20 " No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself? "

― Marian Keyes , Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)