Nina Manning > Quotes

“Tom believed that our relationship was based on me making requests and him fulfilling them, to make me happy.”
― Nina Manning, The Waitress

“She thrived on always being right – which she rarely was – but she spent an inordinate amount of her life trying to prove me wrong.”
― Nina Manning, The Waitress

“Dandelion seeds in tiny glass bottles with cork lids and little labels with the words: Caitlin and Chuck have made their dreams come true, now it’s your turn. Release the seeds and free your wish.”
― Nina Manning, The Bridesmaid

“I just want to be able to forget who I am, pretend to be someone else. Anyone else. You know you can do that when you're an actor? You can be a thousand different people and then you never need to know who you really are”
― Nina Manning, Her Last Summer

“picked up the Christmas-themed paper bag that was leant against the wall and we both headed outside.”
― Nina Manning, The Daughter In Law

“Families made everything complicated.”
― Nina Manning, The Daughter In Law

“Flour and dough were scattered everywhere and she had her handbag on the work surface, a clear health hazard, anything could have been clinging to the bottom of it and infecting her work area.”
― Nina Manning, The Daughter In Law

“That was all she wanted, was for someone to offer her their coat, put an arm around her, check she was okay. She wasn’t desperate for a man, although to have a partner would be nice, she just wanted to feel a connection.”
― Nina Manning, The Beach House

“I needed to get up and prepare myself for whomever I would be today. I don't know who I am, yet everyone knows who I am”
― Nina Manning, Her Last Summer

“The fabric of the past that I believed was tightly woven was still being picked at the stitches, and maybe, just maybe, it was all finally going to come apart, revealing everything that we were and were not as a family”
― Nina Manning, Her Last Summer

“sat”
― Nina Manning, The Bridesmaid

“Oh, Sasha, you look at the world so romantically. You think just because I am related to someone by blood, because I was birthed from them, that I must love them?”
― Nina Manning, The Bridesmaid

“I didn't want my life to be ruled by my past any more”
― Nina Manning, Her Last Summer

“in”
― Nina Manning, The Bridesmaid

“Such was the dichotomy of being a teenager, needing the space and freedom to grow, yet always wanting to return to someone who was older and wiser for comfort and security”
― Nina Manning, Her Last Summer

“and I was treading the murky waters of middle age where making friends and keeping them was not as simple as it once was.”
― Nina Manning, Queen Bee

“No time to think of anyone but themselves.”
― Nina Manning, The Daughter In Law

“Because the bond between a mother and son is a special one. It remains unchanged by time or distance. It is the purest love – unconditional and true. It is understanding of any situation. And forgiving of any mistake.”
― Nina Manning, The Daughter In Law

“It was probably in Psychologies Magazine, that Margo read about negative ions, the invisible molecules that our bodies absorb in abundance in places like beaches and that are reported to produce biochemical reactions that ease stress,”
― Nina Manning, The Beach House

“I found that I was smiling. Because I had finally begun to understand what a platonic relationship with a man felt like and it felt good”
― Nina Manning, Her Last Summer

“though”
― Nina Manning, The Beach House

“Life should be spent with the person you know loves you as much as you love them.”
― Nina Manning, The House Mate

“But I was not the girl I had allowed myself to be last night, I was someone else. I was everyone. Yet I was no one. I shuddered at his touch but not in the wanting way I did last night”
― Nina Manning, Her Last Summer