Between Us Quotes

“Perhaps that was the magic of any holiday; it lifted you out of the familiar and gave you a brief aerial view of your life in progress. It made you confront your world’s smallness in a vastness of opportunity.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us

“Roisin needed to stop punishing the people available to be punished, who might’ve made mistakes, but sincerely loved her back.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us

“There being no correct and appropriate moment to raise any problem was one of the ways the game felt rigged. Pick an otherwise pressured time? She was thoughtlessly adding to it. During a nice evening out? Ruining it. Try to raise it on a quiet day? Ambush.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us

“I’ve got a meeting with J.J. Abrams.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us

“She caught the distant voice of Taylor Swift singing ‘Champagne Problems’. It was so apposite; briefly alone and lonely in her evening finery, it was momentarily as if she was starring in a Baz Luhrmann film.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us

“Everything was interesting if they were together. Oh, to be that young again, when everything felt new.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us

“I know how it feels to be held together by sheer bravado and Charlotte Tilbury.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us

“What if my poisonous secret is that I once wrote a poem about the first time I saw you. You were walking down Deansgate in the driving rain, fearlessly head high, with no coat on. You later told me you'd had a row with your mum and stormed out like that. The poem was so bad that the last time I unearthed it, I both wept with laughter and wanted to physically die, I rhyme Roisin with GLEAM. But I STILL couldn't destroy it, because it reminded me of you.'

'Oh my God! Even that! Can I read it?'

'Fuck no.'

[end chapter]”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us

“Some accusations, from someone you knew well, were like being shivved under the ribs, an attack by an expert assassin who knew exactly how to puncture a vital organ in one economical move. You felt it because you knew it was true.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Between Us