You Belong with Me Quotes

“We've come a long way since I was hired to write your life story, haven't we?'
'Fair to say, you understood the assignment. You haven't stopped writing it since.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“Do you know how much I wish I was there?'
'Is it as much as I wish you were here?'
'Is it like a whole-body longing that slides into a supercut of favourite memories? If so, yes.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“I’m not being blackmailed by anyone but certainly not by someone who dresses like a young Tory.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“You could be technically blameless and feel completely responsible at the same time, it turned out.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“A division of labor that’s worked. We can bear that in mind for the future? We’ll keep choosing each other. Maybe the trick is to spot if it’s your turn.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“I don’t think we were meant to be,” Edie said. “That suggests we could simply wait. I didn’t wait for you, Elliot Owen. I was busy finding myself—at the same time, I found you. Then you chose me, and I chose you.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“Enjoy good times; don’t become obsessed with prolonging and managing them.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“The thing with Elliot is, he does that thing... what's the word for thinking? The thinking that men on horses do? In those shows where the women are in long dresses and it's all about proposing in gardens and having tea at each other's houses? in gloves?'
'Period dramas? A word for thinking?'
'Yeah, by men who are like this...' Fraser affected a haughty curl of the lip.
'Err... brooding?'
'Brooding! That's it. Elliot does a lot of brooding and overthinking.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“I've got a pint of black coffee with two sugars in the BA lounge, and I look like I've been exhumed by detectives who want to run toxicology tests to prove foul play. In a hailstorm. I wouldn't change a thing. Be mine forever? x”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“She felt like Elizabeth Bennet promising her dad that Mr. Darcy wasn't a proud dick after all and that the great estate at Pemberley wasn't a factor, promise.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“I haven’t complained about it?’ ‘No, but you’ve been very … quiet. Like a hit man when he unpacks the gun from the bag and screws the pieces together.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“feel completely responsible at the same time, it turned out.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

“They’d had a nightmare and now the big light had been turned on.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me