Mhairi McFarlane Quotes & Sayings

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 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

That special Manchester rain that manages to be both vertical and horizontal at the same time. — Mhairi McFarlane

One night with you and he's turned into a love-letter writer. You must have an incredible pelvic floor. — Mhairi McFarlane

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

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

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

I don't expect to be happy ever after. Just happier. — Mhairi McFarlane

Being with the wrong person is lonelier than being on your own. Or it's as lonely, in a different way, — Mhairi McFarlane

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

Talk of "types" should probably end around the same time you stop having pin-ups on your wall. — Mhairi McFarlane

Love is what we call it when we find someone else, but lose ourselves. — Mhairi McFarlane

Very few people voluntarily make things worse for themselves, if they have a choice. You know, there's the way we all like to think we behave, and then there's the way we actually do. — Mhairi McFarlane

Isn't it weird how we make big decisions in life based on the strangest, most random things? — Mhairi McFarlane

I wanted him to be happy and it was also going to be the thing that hurt the most — Mhairi McFarlane

University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after. — Mhairi McFarlane

She'd guessed it was partly borne of a private education. Now she pictured him on yachts, as well as attending Hogwarts. — Mhairi McFarlane

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

I'm a lawyer, Rachel. We keep going until we get an answer we believe. — Mhairi McFarlane

Refusal to listen isn't enough of a response. — Mhairi McFarlane

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

Men like fun much more than they like clever — Mhairi McFarlane

I was right I couldn't fall in love with you. Because i never fell out of love with you.
-Ben — Mhairi McFarlane

Present company excepted is such an elegantly insulting term, I think, given it clearly means present company especially. It's up there with with all due respect, meaning with no respect whatsoever. — Mhairi McFarlane

You make a nice mum,' I mumbled.

'I always hoped one day the woman of my dreams would say those words to me,' he said, ruffling my vomity hair. I would've poked him in the ribs in reprisal, but I lacked the motor skills. — Mhairi McFarlane

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

Some friendships got longer without getting deeper. — Mhairi McFarlane

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

An utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email — Mhairi McFarlane

The rule was that they never went to the same place twice — Mhairi McFarlane

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

Delia realised you should see plenty of people you love, because the meaningful conversations don't happen in the first twenty four hours together, or forty-eight, or even the first few days. They came at moments like this. — Mhairi McFarlane

And the whole constant mantra about how 'long-term relationships are hard work' and 'everything has its ups and downs' and 'you're going to be annoyed by their toenails' and 'stick with it' and 'the grass only looks greener' and so on. It's actually very hard to tell when you should split up with someone. All I knew was I was waking up every morning thinking this can't be it, until death. When your relationship is making you feel life's too long, something's gone awry. — Mhairi McFarlane

That's the whole story of how I was so stupid as to risk everything that mattered to me, on something so meaningless. — Mhairi McFarlane

Being single means getting used to your own company and not inventing excuses to keep people around you, None of which makes me feel any less bereft. The latest revelation: you have to relearn being your own again! — Mhairi McFarlane

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

It was startling and humbling to realise how much time you could spend with people to whom you meant so little and vice versa — Mhairi McFarlane

All those wasted years spent trying to get inconsequential people to like her. She never asked herself why she should like them. — Mhairi McFarlane

Funny how, when one part of your life falls away, the other bits that are left start looking rather feeble. — Mhairi McFarlane

Law that stated you didn't advertise any event you hadn't attended, any place you'd never been, or any band you didn't really listen to. — Mhairi McFarlane