Don't You Forget About Me Quotes

“Here’s what life has taught me so far: don’t worry about that thing you’re worrying about. Chances are, it’ll be obliterated by something you didn’t anticipate that’s a million times worse.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“I wondered if you wanted someone to help zip your dress up before a night out. I wondered if you wanted someone to call first in a crisis. I wondered if you wanted someone to text to bring you fish and chips when you can’t be arsed with a proper dinner. I wondered if you wanted someone in your corner when you visit your family, someone who will tell them how lucky they are to have you. I wondered if you wanted someone to fetch the Lucozade when you have the flu.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“There are always those worse off than you. Your problems are not invalid as a result, or needing to be measured against an internationally recognised pain scale before we decide if your condition is severe enough to treat.’)”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don’t You Forget About Me

“The moment where you consider giving in, or do give in, that's the moment you torture yourself about for the rest of your life. That's the moment where you think it happened to you because you are a bad and weak person, who wanted it really. When in fact, it's about survival. And whichever choice you make, it wasn't really a choice at all.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“Sometimes because the people we wanted to care for us, didn’t care for us, we live with a deliberate lack of care for ourselves. A way of getting back at them, through self-neglect.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don’t You Forget About Me

“When there is so much left unsaid, your mind is free to fill in the words that were never exchanged in a hundred thousand different ways...”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“Words saved me. My words.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“No one else is going to fix you. The only person who can fix you, is you.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“I'm not carrying it anymore. I spoke the words aloud, used my words, and broke the curse.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“I shouldn’t have needed to hear what you said last night. I wanted to be everything to you, and instead I was another one of the men who was angry at you for not being able to have you, the way I wanted.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“The word loss had a new meaning, or its meaning became clear: a person who loved me, in a completely unique and irreplaceable way, had vanished and took with him our relationship.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“To be honest, a lot of counseling appears to be accepting you’re up to your tits in shit and finding you’re zen about it.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“I was a natural show-off who hates being the center of attention:”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“When I say he’s not rude, what I really mean is he’s male and moneyed and got to that age where we allow him his chosen degree of rude as some sort of social entitlement, along with his bus pass.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“Imagine. Imagine being a man, and thinking your approval has such value, that this sort of oily off-the-cuff compliment can stitch a wound this big.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“Sometimes the truth is messy and difficult but it isn’t always best left. Sometimes it saves you.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“I didn’t know what falling love felt like, I’d never done it before. I discovered you recognise it easily when it arrives.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don’t You Forget About Me

“When there is so much left unsaid, your mind is free to fill in the words that were never exchanged in a hundred thousand different ways, and believe me, I have.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“You know how your family can wind you up in a way no one else can quite hear? Like a dog whistle?”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“Something I’ve learned is people do much worse things to you in the name of love, than they ever do as your enemy.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“I wondered, Georgina, if you could imagine being in love with me again, the way I’m in love with you. And that given you’re the best thing to ever happen to me, if you could give me the chance to try to be the best thing that ever happened to you.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“You loved me – then what right had you to leave me? Because … nothing God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“...there’s no shame in travelling the long way round to get where you want to go. It doesn’t matter if you take wrong turns. Arriving somewhere you want to be, in the end, is what counts.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“I'm sick of being the person who tries to fit in and tells people what they want to hear and acts like nothing bothers her, it's not got me anywhere.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“It never feels real or finally sinks in. That moment never arrives. The world continues, but with a bit always missing. And meanwhile you’re getting on with it, until it’s found.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don’t You Forget About Me

“And I was scared my expectations were never going to be met. But I’ve learned it’s better to have unrealistic expectations than none at all.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don’t You Forget About Me

“Narcissism, manipulation, lack of empathy,” Rav says, counting them off on his fingers, then grabbing for the open bag of chips. “The people who can reel you in and spit you out, without a second’s guilt.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“No, exactly. He'd be saying, 'I'm so sorry I let you down at the end.' But you don't need his apology. And he wouldn't need yours.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“When I spoke, he concentrated on me intently. Through Lucas’s fascination, I saw myself differently. I was worthy. I didn’t have to try so hard.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me

“I didn’t know what falling in love felt like, I’d never done it before. I discovered you recognize it easily when it arrives.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Don't You Forget About Me