After Hello (You Had Me at Hello, #1.5)

by Mhairi McFarlane

‘It’s perfect because it’s a fantasy and it’s a fantasy because it’s perfect.’

We don’t have any free will, if things are meant to be.’

‘Well I’d rather have things go wrong with you than right with anyone else,’

I wonder if this wedding has made her, to use a technical journalistic term, nuttier than squirrel shit.

Part of being grown up is realising that “I don’t want to” is a good enough reason.’

It’s very powerful to know you can cope. You can do anything after that.’

Not because they got the formula magically exactly right at the outset but because they clung on when they had cause to jump off.’