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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 (You Had Me At Hello, #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))
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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.
Mhairi McFarlane (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
The things we do to avoid difficult things are often worse than the difficult thing.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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)
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)
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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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)
This is what I never knew about loss – it’s also about what you gain. You carry a weight that you never had before. It’s never behind you. It’s alongside you.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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 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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.
Todd McFarlane
God, whenever I forget why I hate men, one of them reminds me.
Mhairi McFarlane (If I Never Met You)
I don't expect to be happy ever after. Just happier.
Mhairi McFarlane (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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?)
There’s something exceptional about friendships with friends you’ve known since you were young. They know all the versions of you. They know how you were built. They have a map for you. There’s a shorthand between you, and a love that is as strong as any blood tie.
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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
I’m sure you can see why I think I’m worth more than someone who spent sixteen years making up his mind about whether I was worth the hassle.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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)
Seeing someone you know well in a totally different context is always disorientating and vaguely impressive. You realise you have them on loan from the other lives they lead.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
My conclusion is this: there’s no rule that says the unavailable person you waste your life being in love with has to be the greatest human you ever met. It doesn’t make the loss of him any less painful.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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 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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
... 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 (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
Refusal to listen isn’t enough of a response.
Mhairi McFarlane (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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)
I ponder how many mistakes in life are born of a simple fear of being rude.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
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?)
One night with you and he’s turned into a love-letter writer. You must have an incredible pelvic floor.
Mhairi McFarlane (It’s Not Me, It’s You)
Laurie," he said quietly. Not a question, or an opening to saying anything else. A full sentence in itself.
Mhairi McFarlane (If I Never Met You)
Good women are not a rewards system for silly men.
Mhairi McFarlane (Mad about You)
Some friendships got longer without getting deeper.
Mhairi McFarlane (It’s Not Me, It’s You)
If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.
Todd McFarlane
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)
There are always those worse off than you. Your problems are not invalid as a result, or needing to be measured against an internationally recognised pain scale before we decide if your condition is severe enough to treat.’)
Mhairi McFarlane (Don’t You Forget About Me)
Uncovering an affair wasn’t a one big fact headline story. It was like Metroyshka dolls, lies inside lies inside lies.
Mhairi McFarlane (It’s Not Me, It’s You)
Words saved me. My words.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
When there is so much left unsaid, your mind is free to fill in the words that were never exchanged in a hundred thousand different ways...
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
This was a category error that too many people made - thinking untruths that didn't add up were better than a hard truth.
Mhairi McFarlane (If I Never Met You)
This is what I never knew about loss—it’s also about what you gain. You carry a weight that you never had before. It’s never behind you. It’s alongside you.
Mhairi McFarlane (Just Last Night)
Sometimes because the people we wanted to care for us, didn’t care for us, we live with a deliberate lack of care for ourselves. A way of getting back at them, through self-neglect.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don’t You Forget About Me)
We're surrounded by people who don’t make that distinction. If you say to them ‘there’s a monster living in my closet, you can’t see him, but you gotta have faith that he’s there’ people would say ‘well that’s ridiculous, you’re out of you’re mind, you should be locked up’ but the same thing does not apply to a guy living on a cloud... We suspend our powers of logic.
Seth 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 (Who’s That Girl?)
I’m a lawyer, Rachel. We keep going until we get an answer we believe.
Mhairi McFarlane (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
Why did a woman’s voice have to be a chorus, to count?
Mhairi McFarlane (Mad about You)
No one else is going to fix you. The only person who can fix you, is you.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
I'm not carrying it anymore. I spoke the words aloud, used my words, and broke the curse.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
She loved him. They’d long ago passed the point where her love was negotiable; it wasn’t contingent on him not being an arsehole. He was her arsehole.
Mhairi McFarlane (If I Never Met You)
those who lose loved ones young become risk-takers. They’re not reckless, they just see the stakes differently to the rest of us. More clearly.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
There’s shock and then there’s grief, and there’s the simple tiring unending chore of life afterward. These are all different things, I’ve learned.
Mhairi McFarlane (Just Last Night)
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 (It’s Not Me, It’s You)
I shouldn’t have needed to hear what you said last night. I wanted to be everything to you, and instead I was another one of the men who was angry at you for not being able to have you, the way I wanted.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
Pensaba que todo pasaría cuando tuviera que pasar. He cambiado de opinión. Si no haces nada, no ocurre nada. La vida es cuestión de decisiones. O las tomas, o alguien las toma por ti, pero no puedes evitarlas.
Mhairi McFarlane (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
This is how it feels in the split second you suddenly become aware that you’re falling in love with someone. The click of a jigsaw’s last piece, the rainfall of coins in a jackpot slot machine, the right song striking up and your being swept away by its opening bars. That conviction of making complete sense of the universe, in one moment. Of course. You’re where I should be. You’re here.
Mhairi McFarlane (Just Last Night)
Here you can see the things that other people created but that I use to express my indiviualism.
Seth Mcfarlane
The word loss had a new meaning, or its meaning became clear: a person who loved me, in a completely unique and irreplaceable way, had vanished and took with him our relationship.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
My point is, 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)
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 (Who’s That Girl?)
Imagine. Imagine being a man, and thinking your approval has such value, that this sort of oily off-the-cuff compliment can stitch a wound this big.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
I was a natural show-off who hates being the center of attention:
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
To be honest, a lot of counseling appears to be accepting you’re up to your tits in shit and finding you’re zen about it.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
You didn’t want me enough, when choosing me became harder.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
Estar con la persona equivocada puede hacer que te sientas más sola que si no estuvieras con nadie. O provoca otro tipo de soledad, pero soledad al fin y al cabo.
Mhairi McFarlane (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
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)
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)
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.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
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 (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
«Porque la simple idea de que me hayas olvidado, como si fuera un archivo inservible, y me hayas arrastrado hasta el icono de papelera de reciclaje de tu cerebro, hace que tenga pesadillas que me producen la misma ansiedad que soñar que estoy desnuda en medio de la calle con todo el mundo mirándome.»
Mhairi McFarlane (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
I think the truth is: opportunities in life are like doors flashing open and slamming closed, for good. You won’t necessarily notice when they’re open, or get any warning they’re going to close. If you don’t bolt through them when you can, then that is that.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
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
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 (It’s Not Me, It’s You)
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 (You Had Me At Hello (You Had Me At Hello, #1))
Sometimes the truth is messy and difficult but it isn’t always best left. Sometimes it saves you.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
that special Manchester rain that manages to be both vertical and horizontal at the same time.
Mhairi McFarlane (You Had Me At Hello)
Never once, did Christ ever utter, "I came here to start a religion" Early Christians did not worship items, relics, wars, or governments.
Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau
Sad is happy for deep people,” I say,
Mhairi McFarlane (Just Last Night)
The only advice people ever take is the advice they want to hear.
Mhairi McFarlane (Mad About You)
You know that this is really rude, right? I mean, you know you can’t stick “no offense” on the end like it takes the curse off?
Mhairi McFarlane (If I Never Met You)
When there is so much left unsaid, your mind is free to fill in the words that were never exchanged in a hundred thousand different ways, and believe me, I have.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
You know how your family can wind you up in a way no one else can quite hear? Like a dog whistle?
Mhairi McFarlane (Don't You Forget About Me)
Beware the Nicest Guy in the Room, who doesn’t think his failures are the same as everyone else’s.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
You need people to like you. Stop caring so much. It doesn’t matter.
Mhairi McFarlane (Who's That Girl?)
Why are things, abandoned things, so hard to bear? They didn’t have that quality before. And compared to the living thing you’ve lost, they’re without value.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
There’s something exceptional about friendships with friends you’ve known since you were young. They know all the versions of you.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
I didn’t know what falling love felt like, I’d never done it before. I discovered you recognise it easily when it arrives.
Mhairi McFarlane (Don’t You Forget About Me)
It feels like a conversation you never want to end, I suppose. “A renewable energy source. You know how with some people you can’t get chatting off the ground? They’re hard work? Falling in love is the extreme opposite. Endless fascination. It’s effortless. A spark turns into a flame turns into a fire. That doesn’t go out.
Mhairi McFarlane (If I Never Met You)
Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown, 1996) contend that the controversy of delayed recall for traumatic events is likely to be influenced by sexism. Kristiansen, Gareau, Mittleholt, DeCourville, and Hovdestad (1995) found that people who were more authoritarian and who had less favorable attitudes toward women were less likely to believe in the veracity of women’s recovered memories for sexual abuse. Those who challenged the truthfulness of recovered memories were more likely to endorse negative statements about women, including the idea that battered women enjoy being abused. McFarlane and van der Kolk (1996) have noted that delayed recall in male combat veterans reported by Myers (1940) and Kardiner (1941) did not generate controversy, whereas delayed recall in female survivors of intrafamilial child sexual abuse has provoked considerable debate.
Rachel E. Goldsmith
The way I see it,’ Edie said, holding both their hands, as they looked at the water rushing over the rocks, ‘you get people who are important to you, for as long as you get them. You never know how long it will be. You have to accept it and make use of the time you have.
Mhairi McFarlane (Who's That Girl?)
I think sometimes, shit things in life can’t be learned from, they just “are”. You have to live around them and with them. No one admits it, because it doesn’t sound inspiring if you put it over a picture of a sunset.
Mhairi McFarlane (Who's That Girl?)
Number three: Stay away from the church. In the battle over science vs. religion, science offers credible evidence for all the serious claims it makes. The church says, 'Oh, it’s right here in this book, see? The one written by people who thought the sun was magic?' I for one would like to see some proof that there is a God. And if you say 'a baby’s smile' I’m going to kick you right in the stomach. -Stewie
Seth Mcfarlane
This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. ...But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there [Britain].
Todd McFarlane
The panic that her voice, the way she spoke, her attitude, all that was unique and specific to her, would pass into history. I wanted her to be here, and for her contributions and opinions to still be with us. That she is past tense, feels so impossible, when she was so vividly alive.
Mhairi McFarlane (Last Night)
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 (Who’s That Girl?)