Top 120 Mhairi McFarlane Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Why did a woman’s voice have to be a chorus, to count?”

— Mhairi McFarlane

102. “Sorry,’ he mutters back, in that reflexive British way where you’re apologetic that someone else has had to make an apology.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

103. “That’s the whole story of how I was so stupid as to risk everything that mattered to me, on something so meaningless.”

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104. “I’d gone from not noticing Lucas ever to being consumed by noticing him constantly. I developed the sensory awareness of an apex predator: at any time I could tell you where Lucas was in the common room, without you ever seeing my eyes flicker toward him.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

105. “Perhaps that was the magic of any holiday; it lifted you out of the familiar and gave you a brief aerial view of your life in progress. It made you confront your world’s smallness in a vastness of opportunity.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

106. “One night with you and he’s turned into a love-letter writer. You must have an incredible pelvic floor.”

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107. “No one, not even Prince at the height of his fame, Laurie reckoned, could maintain their adulthood persona around their parents. Your closest family returned you to whence you’d came, when you were still a work in progress. They weren’t fooled for a second. Older you was a construct.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

108. “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

109. “Sometimes my friendship with Ed feels amazing and beneficial, because it’s good to know I can feel that way with someone, and to see him glow with adoration in return. Other times, it’s like endlessly overperforming in an interview, for a job where the position has already been filled.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

110. “Laurie,” he said quietly. Not a question, or an opening to saying anything else. A full sentence in itself.”

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111. “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

112. “I don’t expect to be happy ever after. Just happier.”

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113. “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

114. “I wonder what she wants?′ Sam said. ‘Apart from Cal’s balls and soul trapped in a haunted jam jar.”

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115. “Maybe money couldn’t buy you happiness; however, it was still a mood-altering, life-changing, addictive substance. It could purchase you not only pleasure, Harriet had discovered, but ease, patience, convenience. A kind of sunny outlook and frictionless existence where your path through any difficulties could always be smoothed by its liberal application.”

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116. “Men like fun much more than they like clever.”

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117. “He was, Harriet always said to herself and others, an incredibly, ludicrously nice guy. So, given her increasing doubts, what did that make her?”

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118. “No one said evil couldn’t be attractive. That’s how evil gets a lot of it workload done, in fact.”

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119. “Some friendships got longer without getting deeper.”

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120. “You didn’t want me enough, when choosing me became harder.”

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121. “You know, now our generation doesn’t have to get married – and thank goodness for that – it’s easy to think it’s a superfluous nonsense, and sometimes weddings are. But it’s also easy to forget how absolutely fantastic they can be.”

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122. “I thought the speech about how I was dementedly in love with you was enough encouragement, if that’s what you needed.’ ‘In love with me twelve years ago.’ ‘Why would that have changed? Nothing’s changed. Actually, that’s not true. I feel even more for you now than I did then.”

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123. “Everyone’s interesting,” Elliot said. “Acting 101.” – “They’re definitely not. Advertising 202.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

124. “It will always be this way, I’ve come to realize. You are never behind me, Susie. You are never something that happened. You are always alongside me.”

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125. “When I spoke, he concentrated on me intently. Through Lucas’s fascination, I saw myself differently. I was worthy. I didn’t have to try so hard.”

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126. “If you’re a mistake you’re the greatest one ever made. I’m really proud to know you.”

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127. “It was everything I could ever want, to be honest. You are everything I could ever want.”

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128. “I ponder how many mistakes in life are born of a simple fear of being rude.”

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129. “You couldn’t put a burden down if you didn’t admit to yourself you were carrying it.”

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130. “There should be a German word for both dying to know something and, at the same time, being sick with terror at the prospect of hearing anything about it whatsoever.”

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131. “Uncovering an affair wasn’t a one big fact headline story. It was like Metroyshka dolls, lies inside lies inside lies.”

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132. “Single Anna was whole Anna. Not finding someone wasn’t a failure, it was just a fact.”

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