Mad About You Quotes

“Good women are not a rewards system for silly men.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“Why did a woman’s voice have to be a chorus, to count?”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“The only advice people ever take is the advice they want to hear.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“Courage calls to courage everywhere.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“Allergic to lettuce. Harriet sometimes thought that was Jon in three words. Who on earth is allergic to lettuce? Imagine the shame at the inquest. Cause of Death: radicchio.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“A narcissist has empathy, she once read, they know it affects you—they just don’t care.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“I felt safe with you, and in the end that wasn't enough. I'm sorry.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“You know the school science project where you dipped a penny in fizzy drink and it came out shining and new? That's how you've made me feel. Thank you for being the off-brand cola to my coin.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“The way he undermines you gradually: it’s so hard to explain until you’ve been through it. He waits until you’re in love and completely vulnerable and then it starts, and you have no defences.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“Acts of kindness, acts of thoughtfulness: they could echo down the years long after the person who had offered them was gone. This was worth knowing.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“I wonder what she wants?' Sam said. 'Apart from Cal's balls and soul trapped in a haunted jam jar.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“He was, Harriet always said to herself and others, an incredibly, ludicrously nice guy. So, given her increasing doubts, what did that make her?”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“Maybe money couldn’t buy you happiness; however, it was still a mood-altering, life-changing, addictive substance. It could purchase you not only pleasure, Harriet had discovered, but ease, patience, convenience. A kind of sunny outlook and frictionless existence where your path through any difficulties could always be smoothed by its liberal application.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“Is this definitive proof I have the worst judgment in men?” “No, you don’t. What you have is trust that has been abused. Men aren’t your fault.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“I wondered if we might be in one of those situations where I'm madly in love with you and you're at least slightly in love with me, and neither of us are saying so, in case the other isn't.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“At hearing Cal had white-knighted her, he’d go up like Jeff Bezos’s cock rocket, surely.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“It shouldn’t be a surprise that Scott’s story had been bought hook, line, and sinker by a vast army of morally vehement unknowns, most of whom liked to use half a dozen emojis. Their not knowing Scott clearly didn’t matter to them. Their not knowing Harriet definitely didn’t matter to them.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“Never seen the appeal of hot tubs. Glorified paddling pools for swingers,’ Lorna said. ‘A bubbling cauldron of suburban pervs. You always ponder what percentage of that tepid water is covert wees. You’d never get into a bath with your neighbours, would you? Brrrr.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“It would’ve been helpful if you’d explained your circumstances rather than to leave me to answer the door to him. He was hammering away like he was being chased by a bear and if I knew there was a looming threat in your life like that, I’d have known to keep it shut.’ ‘Honestly,”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“Why did a woman's voice have to be a chorus, to count?”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“Le truc avec Cal Clarke, c'est qu'il était marrant. Elle ne s'était pas rendu compte à quel point cela lui avait manqué de s'amuser.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“- Pour moi, tout l'intérêt est d'être éblouissant à la cérémonie, poursuivit Danny. La magie est gâchée quand on sait comment on prépare la saucisse.
- Évidemment, on ne montre jamais toutes les coulisses. Rien que des photos sexy, où vous êtes bien rasés comme dans une pub pour un after-shave, en train d'ajuster votre nœud papillon.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“after we”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“Scott thrived on being a novelty, buzzed on being the latest, greatest person you’d met. He poured his energies into winning new acquaintances over like a top salesman with his most potentially lucrative client. He’d have effectively been auditioning as a future best man from their first handshake, whether he got the gig or not. Scott, she had realized only with hindsight, liked to overwhelm people.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“suggesting she was running away. Harriet never so much as hinted at the figure in her history, and yet somehow, they all knew he was there. She balled her trembling fingers into a fist under the table, out of sight.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“hand”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“Quincy Jones says of creativity: ‘God walks out of the room when you’re thinking about money,”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“If it’s right, terrible adversity somehow makes your chemistry shine brighter. That’s when you find out if it’s genuine joy in each other’s company: if it can make the worst times good, or reveal if your relationship relies on all the trappings.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You

“You felt gratitude that he was so obsessed with you, and gratitude at all his mad spoiling to demonstrate it, and that gratitude made you think you owed him the relationship. He used his spending to oblige you and control things. It wasn’t generosity, it was a messed-up power dynamic.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad about You