"It's pathetic, I knew I did from that first moment we met. It was...not love at first sight exactly, but - familiarity. Like: oh, hello, it's you. It's going to be you. Game over." -Ben" ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"I was right I couldn't fall in love with you. Because i never fell out of love with you." -Ben" ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"Those who said family mattered above all else were wrong. People you love, who love you back, matter above all. Crap people you happen to be related to: you need to stop thinking you owe them a limitless number of chances to hurt you." ― Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You
"Isn't it weird how we make big decisions in life based on the strangest, most random things?" ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"I wanted him to be happy and it was also going to be the thing that hurt the most" ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"Being with the wrong person is lonelier than being on your own. Or it's as lonely, in a different way," ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"His sadness was almost palpable, like moisture in the air before it rains. Although this was Manchester, it was probably about to rain anyway." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"I thought it would all fall into place. I've changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"Seems once was enough to infect me. From then on you've been lying dormant, like a virus. Or an incurable chronic condition that flares up from time to time.' A long pause, where life transforms from black-and-white to colour. 'I'm eczema?' Ben beams. 'Eczema of the heart. That's it. Psoriasis of the soul." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"Here's what life has taught me so far: don't worry about that thing you're worrying about. Chances are, it'll be obliterated by something you didn't anticipate that's a million times worse." ― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me
"...the life with him you feel like you lost out on, it's perfect because it's a fantasy and it's a fantasy because it's perfect." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"keep a close eye on the worst things that happened to you, they could turn out to be a doorway, a route to someplace else entirely, a map you couldn't yet read." ― Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You
"I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still open, shoals of brightly-dressed clubber, the beeping taxis and the greasy, savoury smell of meat and onions from the burger vans." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"God, whenever I forget why I hate men, one of them reminds me." ― Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You
"I notice, once again, that company that's not the right fit for you is so much lonelier than being happily alone." ― Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night
"Funny how, when one part of your life falls away, the other bits that are left start looking rather feeble." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day" ― Mhairi McFarlane, Here's Looking at You
"In this moment, she made herself a promise: in the very unlikely event she found herself in love with anyone again, she'd assert herself. She'd say what she wanted, not endlessly accommodate his needs. If that made her a bitch at any point, so be it. There were no rewards to being a walkover." ― Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You
"Nothing worthwhile was without risk. You had to decide whether your feelings were strong enough to make it a risk worth taking." ― Mhairi McFarlane, It's Not Me, It's You
"I wondered if you wanted someone to help zip your dress up before a night out. I wondered if you wanted someone to call first in a crisis. I wondered if you wanted someone to text to bring you fish and chips when you can't be arsed with a proper dinner. I wondered if you wanted someone in your corner when you visit your family, someone who will tell them how lucky they are to have you. I wondered if you wanted someone to fetch the Lucozade when you have the flu." ― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me
"...I think you're bound to feel guilty, and you're going to feel sad. You have to simply feel it. Don't hate yourself. It is what it is." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"... when you love someone, you want their happiness even when it's not going to involve you. Even when it depends on your lack of involvement." ― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
"He's an irrelevant person. Learn to spot irrelevant people. Don't expect someone who doesn't know who they are to care who you are." ― Mhairi McFarlane, Who's That Girl?
"You won't find someone who treats you as you should be treated until you start to believe you are worth the ones you want, the ones who aren't asking you to do any work. Find the man who appreciates you at your best, not one who confirms your worst suspicions about yourself." ― Mhairi McFarlane, Who's That Girl?
"The things we do to avoid difficult things are often worse than the difficult thing." ― Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night
"At some point, you have to give up wishing for your parents to be who you wanted them to be and accept them as they are," ― Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You
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