John Marrs > Quotes

“If you’ve got the opportunity to love someone as much as they love you, then grab it with both hands and hold on to it for dear life.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Maybe when you took it back to the basics, that's what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.- Jade”
― John Marrs, The One

“Maybe when you took it back to basics, that’s what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Sometimes, the grass is not greener on the other side, and we should stay in the field where we belong. And sometimes we just need to take a gamble and hope for the best.”
― John Marrs, The One

“I also wanted to demonstrate how greedy we are as human beings. How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”
― John Marrs, The One

“What if it turns out our DNA doesn’t Match?” “Then we’ll be mindful that maybe we’ll need to put more effort into our relationship. Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’” “Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Because when you’re not considered to be a threat, you can get away with much, much more.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’” “Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Don't let the chance to be happy pass you by.”
― John Marrs, The One

“There were others out there like him, which meant that Christopher was normal, just a different type of normal.”
― John Marrs, The One

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

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.’ —Charles Spurgeon”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“It’d be like suing gun manufacturers on behalf of anyone who’s ever been shot. It’s not the fault of the weapon, it’s the user.”
― John Marrs, The One

“You're stronger than us. Once you find your anchor never let go of it. No matter what.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Even if it’s not physical between you two, it is emotional, and that’s the equivalent of an affair. - Sally”
― John Marrs, The One

“A priest I knew once told me “a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“I prefer detective or psychological thrillers, anything that promises and then delivers a twist. I like to get the old grey matter working and decipher who the bad guy is. I’m hard to please though. If I guess the culprit correctly, I’ll be disappointed at how predictable the story is. If I get it wrong, I’ll be annoyed at myself for not spotting it earlier.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“Of course. It’s ingrained in everyone, isn’t it? Everyone wants to cheat, but it’s whether you’ve got a good enough reason to do it.”
― John Marrs, The One

“You can either learn from your parents’ mistakes, or repeat them and use them as an excuse for your own behaviour.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“But then you walked into the pub and I thought my stomach had just fallen out of my arse.’ He smiled as Ellie stared at him, partly in wonder at why such opposing personalities had been Matched and partly because he was the least pretentious man she’d ever met, let alone been on a date with. ‘Honestly, Ellie, when I saw you come into the pub, I let out the longest fart, I thought I was going to fly across the room like a deflating balloon.’ Ellie”
― John Marrs, The One

“If it was cancer or a heart condition that had killed Charlotte, people might have related to me better, because many people have lost someone to one of those illnesses. But when it’s an invisible problem like mental health or suicide, people aren’t sure how to talk about it. They’d rather say nothing than end up saying something insensitive, stupid or becoming tongue-tied. It made for a lonelier life for me, though.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“To anyone who ever gave you confidence - you owe them a lot.”
― John Marrs, The Wronged Sons

“relationships didn’t need truth to make them work, they just needed one of them to possess a heart large enough to beat for both of them.”
― John Marrs, The One

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

“Nothing disappears any more,’ shrugged Cadman. ‘Everything is somewhere. All that’s private becomes public in the end.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“My memories of him didn’t disappear just because he did.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“When people are part of a mob, they stop being individuals, their inhibitions disappear, they don't follow their normal moral compass (...) when they're surrounded by like-minded people, they don't see themselves as violent individuals, it's the group that's responsible for the violence, not them personally.”
― John Marrs, The Passengers

“It’s that feeling you don’t get when you’re around anyone else, like nobody in the world matters when you’re in their company. Like you and them are this one, solitary...thing... And no matter what crap the world throws at you, you can get through it because you have them on your side.”
― John Marrs, The One

“Christopher turned the volume up on the MP3 player strapped to his arm and ran to the beat of his Spotify playlist. Adele was the next artist to shuffle on and he wondered why all killers depicted in television dramas only ever listened to angry, shouty, heavy metal music—in the same way that all fictitious black criminals only ever listened to rap. Nobody ever killed or robbed a bank to the sounds of Rihanna or Justin Bieber.”
― John Marrs, The One

“I keep most people at arm’s length for a reason. If you allow an emotional attachment to develop, eventually that person will disappoint you. They might not mean to, but if a better opportunity comes along, they will always leave you for it. I’ve learned the hard way that people – even loved ones – are transient souls.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us