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

“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

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

“The more neglected the better.”
― 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

“I remember every one of them. Because I am the bait that lures them here.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“And I’m crapping it like I’ve necked a handful of laxatives.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“the bottom falls out of my world.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Good or bad, it has made me the person I am today. To some, I’m a saviour, but to others, I’m a monster. I know what my work has been about, all the souls I’ve saved from torment.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Talk to me, don’t talk about me.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Once I learned to let go of what I couldn’t have, I appreciated what I did have.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“And me. I remember every one of them. Because I am the bait that lures them here.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“But for tonight, I intend to have loud, passionate sex with Debbie’s son and scream the sodding roof down if I have to, and I don’t care who hears. If I can’t give him a baby, I’ll at least give him the time of his life.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Kids’ clothes in a shrink-wrapped bag,”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

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

“I have never truly been able to escape it. I am it and it is me.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Anyway, who’d have believed you and Mum were fighting to get your hands on the same thing?’ ‘She and I have been doing that ever since I met you.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“he is not human. He is an everyday, ten-a-penny object. And it doesn’t really matter how carelessly you treat an everyday object, because if it breaks, it is easily replaced.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“I’m well practised at hiding things from her, but she’s usually pretty vocal if something’s pissing her off.”
― 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

“I have a life away from my marriage.”
― 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

“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

“No one under this roof believes in compassion. Empathy is an alien emotion here.”
― 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

“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

“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

“I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC.”
― 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