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1 " 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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1)
2 " University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after. "
3 " Men like fun much more than they like clever "
― Mhairi McFarlane , Here's Looking at You
4 " London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day "
5 " 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?
6 " 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. "
7 " His sadness was almost palpable, like moisture in the air before it rains. Although this was Manchester, it was probably about to rain anyway. "
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9 " 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. "
10 " The moment where you consider giving in, or do give in, that's the moment you torture yourself about for the rest of your life. That's the moment where you think it happened to you because you are a bad and weak person, who wanted it really. When in fact, it's about survival. And whichever choice you make, it wasn't really a choice at all. "
― Mhairi McFarlane , Don't You Forget About Me
11 " Yeah. Pull no punches. Why the fuck should you? Why is it your fault that your worst day was that bad? "
12 " When I say he’s not rude, what I really mean is he’s male and moneyed and got to that age where we allow him his chosen degree of rude as some sort of social entitlement, along with his bus pass. "
13 " 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. "
14 " 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 "
15 " I was right I couldn't fall in love with you. Because i never fell out of love with you."-Ben "
16 " 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
17 " Isn't it weird how we make big decisions in life based on the strangest, most random things? "
18 " I wanted him to be happy and it was also going to be the thing that hurt the most "
19 " Being with the wrong person is lonelier than being on your own. Or it’s as lonely, in a different way, "
20 " 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. "
