It’s Not Me, It’s You Quotes

“Nothing worthwhile was without risk. You had to decide whether your feelings were strong enough to make it a risk worth taking.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“One night with you and he’s turned into a love-letter writer. You must have an incredible pelvic floor.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Some friendships got longer without getting deeper.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Uncovering an affair wasn’t a one big fact headline story. It was like Metroyshka dolls, lies inside lies inside lies.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Very few people voluntarily make things worse for themselves, if they have a choice. You know, there’s the way we all like to think we behave, and then there’s the way we actually do.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Delia realised you should see plenty of people you love, because the meaningful conversations don't happen in the first twenty four hours together, or forty-eight, or even the first few days. They came at moments like this.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“- See those pidgins?
- Yes.
- Pidgins know more then they´re letting on.
- Do they? - Delia said
- You think they carried all those messages, and never read any of them?”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“She wasn’t sure about being christened the office’s ‘resident sleuth,’ just because she’d discovered the persistent odour in the ladies lavatory had come from an ‘upper decker’ left in one of the cisterns by a discontented male work experience placement who might have deep-rooted issues with women.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“That’s the whole story of how I was so stupid as to risk everything that mattered to me, on something so meaningless.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“I saw the love of my life about to walk out and I thought complete honesty would mean losing you forever. It’s taken me until now to see that complete honesty was my only hope.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“She’d guessed it was partly borne of a private education. Now she pictured him on yachts, as well as attending Hogwarts.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“It was fear, cloaked in rationalisations and self-deprecation.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“He wasn’t attractive, as such. He was blandly, boringly competent at having a face.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Delia dipped her head under the water and let her hair float in a warm halo of snakes around her skull, thinking of herself as a modern-day Ophelia,”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“[My sister] said, oh dear, you've fallen in love with her, you idiot. I said no, no, no, absolutely not. I'm simply experiencing an overpowering level of irrational emotion that makes me want to roll a rock over the door like a Flintstone and imprison her, until she realises she must choose me. I won't be a cruel jailer, she will get fed and can take supervised baths. My sister said, yeah, that's love.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Instead of trying and failing, Delia never tried. She told herself that failure was inevitable and she’d only look silly in the process. It was fear, cloaked in rationalisations and self-deprecation.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Maybe confidence is all about simply pretending, until it’s not a pretence any more.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“In a city full of get up and go, it was impossible to feel part of things when you woke just as everyone had gotten up and gone.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Oh my GOD. I can’t believe you work at the council! D Neither can I. PN So why the trolling, the mayhem, the havoc, the antagonism towards the council? D Because I work at the council. PN”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“What happens next? might’ve been the most thrilling thing anyone had ever said to Delia. Someone cared what might happen in a fictional universe she’d made up, simply to entertain herself, as if it had a life of its own.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“that survival techniques could also mean denial”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Every day, you can choose to be happy”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You

“Sich zu verlieben, ist eine Sache. Zusammenleben bedeutet, zu streiten, wer vergessen hat, die Spülmaschinentabs zu besorgen”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Es muss wohl an dir liegen: Roman | Romantisch, witzig und unterhaltsam - eine charmante Romcom mit Witz und Herz

“Delia thought it was as much use as putting deely-boppers on a crocodile and calling it Miriam”
― Mhairi McFarlane, It’s Not Me, It’s You