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.’

‘… I don’t know what “meant to be” means, really, do you?’ he says, eventually. ‘It suggests there’s some sort of God and a grand plan and life happens the way it’s supposed to, with or without input from you. Which is a pretty depressing notion, if you think about it. We don’t have any free will, if things are meant to be.’

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

‘He looks at you the way I look at peanut KitKat Chunkys on fast days.’