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  1. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    As always she was kitted out in the pristine pastels of baby clothes and her little plimsolls were so white my eyes ached. To look directly at them one would need a piece of cardboard with a hole in it, of the type used for viewing a solar eclipse.
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  2. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? Why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? We are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs and if human beings were cars, we would return them for being faulty.
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  3. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    She had once tried to copy Jojo's sexy wink – drink had been taken – but she had simply succeeded in dislodging her contact lens which had made her eyelid flutter like a trapped butterfly.
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  4. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    Anton and I went to see her in her office in Soho. It was less than a fortnight before I gave birth to Ema so getting me there was a huge undertaking, like crating and transporting a sick elephant.
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  5. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.
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  6. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    When God closes one door, He slams another in your face
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  7. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.
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  8. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?
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  9. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.
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  10. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
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  11. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
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  12. Marian Keyes _ The Other Side of the Story

    why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.
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