The One That Got Away Quotes

“You see, that’s the problem with “what ifs”, they work both ways, so if you think about it, they sort of cancel each other out. And all that’s left, all that matters, are the choices we make, choices that don’t come with a single assurance that they’re not going to end in disaster. Is there a chance that things might not work? Absolutely. But is there a chance they might? Most definitely. It’s like something my dad once told me, something he read in a self-help book: life doesn’t come with any guarantees, all you get – all any of us get – is what we get. So, in the end, all you can do is put your best foot forward, and keep doing that ’til the day you die.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“Love is just a fact. There’s no believing required. It’s just there, like air.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“This was not the way we were meant to end up; we were supposed to get our hard-earned, written-in-the-stars, course-of-true-love-never-did-run-smooth-but-comes-good-eventually happy ever after.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“This”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“This was not the way we were meant to end up; we were supposed to get our hard-earned”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“actually brought man tears to my eyes.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“more than”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“But a kiss with regrets is certainly better than none at all.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“made me realise that she didn’t really love me. And that maybe, truthfully, I’d been in love more with the idea of her than the reality all along.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“What is it about people getting all philosophical, instead of just getting on with the basics of being happy?”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“I should never have pressured you into being who you aren’t,’ I continue. But equally I should never have pretended not to care about the things that mean so much to me.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“I believe people can like each other and want to spend time with each other . . . but all that stuff about being together forever? I don’t know, it feels a bit like a work of fiction, a lie we tell ourselves to make life more palatable. A way of explaining the kind of temporary chemical craziness that comes over people when they get together. It’s just molecules breaking apart and forming new bonds, it’s hormones playing tricks on us to fool us into keeping the species alive, and sooner or later it wears off.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“I drew the line at lizard people and alien abductions.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away