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Mad About You

Mhairi McFarlane

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Good women are not a rewards system for silly men.”

“Why did a woman’s voice have to be a chorus, to count?”

“The only advice people ever take is the advice they want to hear.”

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

“Courage calls to courage everywhere.”

“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.”

“I wonder what she wants?' Sam said. 'Apart from Cal's balls and soul trapped in a haunted jam jar.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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