Updated: November 17, 2025
Here’s a collection of quotes from the Korean drama, Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Episodes 1-2
“My taxes pay your salary. I had no idea my tax money ended up in the pockets of such trash.” – Yoo Meri
“If it’s bound to happen one day, that might as well be today.” – Yoo Meri
“You get over love with love!” – Kim Wooju (Ex)
“Do clean breakups exist?” – Yoo Meri
“You pretend to be okay. What’s broken can’t be glued back together.” – Yoo Meri
“I’ll live well without you now. I’ll make lots of money. I’ll go on lots of trips. I’ll even go on blind dates. I’ll forget the likes of you. I’ll be really busy.” – Yoo Meri
“The sun is rising. It’s like a red flower blooming through the dark. Even though my world crumbles, the sun still rises and morning still comes. There’s always a way out, right?” – Yoo Meri
“Could you be my husband?” – Yoo Meri
“Nothing good comes from raising voices among family members.” – Uncle Hangu
“Having competition helps you grow.” – Uncle Hangu
“Enough with the tears or the tiger will come and get you.” – Wooju
“Sometimes, losing is winning.” – Youngsook
Episodes 3-4
“I’m not angry with you. It’s my circumstances that I can’t stand.” – Yoo Meri
“If we have to feel uneasy anyway, we might as well do it properly. A half-baked job will only get us caught.” – Wooju
“Don’t you know offense is the best defense?” – Yoo Meri
“But no one decides to marry just for his looks.” – Yoo Meri
“Why did I give him every piece of my heart? What a fool.” – Yoo Meri
“Why do you need to change? I’m sure you’ll meet someone who won’t take your love for granted.” – Wooju
“Making a living is no joke. Being an employee is tough. But all we can do is tough it out.” – Yoon Jingyeong
“Unsolicited words of comfort are just arrogance.” – Baek Sang Hyun
“How can people live without draining themselves emotionally?” – Yoon Jingyeong
“Why do you always have to be her pride and joy? What more do you have to be besides her daughter?” – Wooju
“They said you need to clear out the junk to make room for something better, so forget about him and live your life.” – Ms. Oh
“The world isn’t as harsh as you might imagine. But sometimes, the least expected also happens.” – Yoo Meri
“Sometimes, the thing you’re searching for is right under your nose. The girl I’d been looking for was right under my nose.” – Wooju
“I wonder if she knew that when harsh winds swept through my lonely heart, the warmth from a girl I’d just met brought me a brief moment of peace.” – Wooju
“When I met her again, I wanted to say how grateful I was. But I never asked if she remembered me. This was enough distance. I was repaying the favor by helping her this much.” – Wooju
Episodes 5-6
“First love is like an installment savings plan that’s meant to be canceled.” – Yoo Meri
“If we were to meet again, I’d recognize him right away. He was so good-looking. He was totally my type.” – Yoo Meri
“No matter how hard you try, you can never be me.” –
“There are 365 days in a year. It doesn’t matter if you erase one from your mind.” – Yoo Meri
“In that short moment, I made a wish. That the wishes of the woman who gave me a way out whenever I was at a dead end would come true.” – Wooju
“You’ll have to be really smart if you want to pick up the crumbs next to your rich friend.” – Baek Sang Hyun
“I want to be with someone who’s there for me when I’m struggling. Not someone who wants me only when they need me.” – Yoo Meri
“Maybe it’s because I like you. I don’t like seeing you with another guy.” – Wooju
Episodes 7-8
“Are you dating my family? You’d be dating me.” – Wooju
“Does it bother you that I like you?” – Wooju
“I only know how responsible a man feels before marriage.” – Wooju
“For a man so competent and just, doesn’t it hurt your pride?” – Yoon Jingyeong
“There are people who were born on third base and think they scored a three-base hit. They think they got there themselves and criticize others without thinking.” – Baek Sang Hyun
“The pride and convictions people like you have are the first thing people like me who struggle to be at first base must give up.” – Baek Sang Hyun
“Do I have no charm at all as a woman?” – Yoon Jingyeong
“It’s not because he’s known you for so long. It’s because he initially didn’t see you as dating material.” – Baek Sang Hyun
“Being cute isn’t a free pass.” – Yoo Meri
“From now on, even if someone says they like you, you need to stay calm, okay?” – Yoo Meri
“Life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, you know. Do you get that?” – Yoo Meri
“It’s not because I’m sorry. It’s because I like you.” – Wooju
“Whatever it is that you do, I’ll stay right next to you.” – Wooju
“I want to stand tall in front of you. And in front of those around you.” – Yoo Meri
“Whatever you decide, I’ll be right beside you.” – Wooju
“From now on, don’t show up too pretty when you come for the meetings. I can’t concentrate.” – Wooju
“What’s the point of making money? It’s not like I’m going to take it to my grave.” – Chairwoman
Episodes 9-10
“You don’t need a fake now that the real one is back.” – Kim Wooju (Ex)
“I thought I could spend the rest of my life free of worry if I had a house like this. But I can’t sleep in peace.” – Yoo Meri
“Watching you struggle in the middle of us all would be too much for me.” – Yoo Meri
“I felt like running at full speed today myself.” – Yoon Jingyeong
“Do you know how tough it was for me after you walked off?” – Wooju
“Not being with you is the worst.” – Wooju
“If you really care about me, stay right next to me.” – Wooju
“Are you two really married?” – Baek Sang Hyun
“When things are hard, they say it helps to take three big sighs.” – Yoo Meri
“You know, people aren’t really interested in how you’ve lived. So stop acting all guilty like that.” – Yoon Jingyeong
“Do you know when I’m most excited and when it’s the hardest for me? The payday.” – Yoo Meri
Episode 11
“Do you know what I regret the most? Being patient with you.” – Eungsoo
“You’re a monster.” – Eungsoo
“I hated myself because unlike you, I was useless in school and at work. You have no idea how relieved I am about that now.” – Eungsoo
“I won’t forgive you until the day I die.” – Eungsoo
“I’m completely normal. You’re the unusual one. You’re way too serious.” – Yoon Jingyeong
“Why don’t you call me once a week? I’ll make you laugh.” – Yoon Jingyeong
Episode 12
“I’ll pay for my own sins. So you should pay for your own sins.” – Baek Sang Hyun
“In the world of crime, it’s only right that virtue triumphs over vice and justice prevails.” – Yoon Jingyeong
“I think I’ll think a lot of you from time to time.” – Baek Sang Hyun
“Seeing you broken and falling apart like this doesn’t make me happy or satisfied.” – Yoo Meri
“Let’s forget that you hurt me and your hatred toward me. Let’s forget it all and just keep the good memories.” – Yoo Meri
“All the good days are behind me and I lost a good woman like Meri.” – Kim Wooju (Ex)
“Someone comforted me recently. I realized that money isn’t everything in this world. Thanks to that person, I feel so much at ease now.” – Baek Sang Hyun
“We thought everything would go smoothly, but as we each carried our own unspoken worries, life got busier, and we drifted apart.” – Yoo Meri
“But you said it yourself, anyone can make mistakes. What matters is having the heart and the will to make things right.” – Wooju
“Like these turtles, who are dependent on their strong shells, I hope you’re growing stronger through your days there.” – Yoon Jingyeong
“Luck comes in disguise. When the greatest luck of my life came to me, I thought happiness was finally coming my way. But luck built on lies can’t be real.” – Yoo Meri
“Maybe, in all those desperate moments clinging to that house, what I truly wanted wasn’t a fake home I had to hide from everyone but a single person who could love me no matter who I was. Meeting someone like that. Isn’t that what luck is really about?” – Yoo Meri
“Such luck comes like fate in the most desperate moments. Some days were happy, and some days were not. Whenever waves of sorrow and loneliness crashed over me, I lost my way and wandered. But maybe all that time was a path leading me to you. As if we had promised to meet after a long journey apart.” – Wooju
“Every moment of our lives was leading us toward one another.” – Yoo Meri
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Also known as: Marry Me in the Universe
Synopsis: A struggling designer and an heir to an old bakery enter a 90-day fake marriage in order to win a luxurious newlywed townhouse.
No. of episodes: 12
Cast: Choi Woo Shik, Jung So Min
Screenwriter: Lee Hana
Directors: Hwang In Hyeok, Song Hyun Wook
Network: SBS
Streaming platform: Disney+
Date: October 10, 2025
Disney+ English subtitle translation:
Jennifer Jean Lim, Hyelim Park, Susanna Kim
Images: SBS
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