Sarra Manning > Quotes

“That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.”
― Sarra Manning

“What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.”
― Sarra Manning

“She was so fed up with unrequited love and platonic love and all the other kinds of love that weren’t passionate, romantic, can’t-live-without-you, I-have-to-have-you-right-now, the-beat-of-your-heart-matches-the-beat-of-mine love.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched people. The me that would one day find some beautiful, intelligent boy who'd recognize me as his soul mate. The me who was secretly pretty and stylish if only someone would lift the veil and see. But I was beginning to suspect that underneath the awkwardness there was just more awkwardness and not much else. And that would explain why I stood in a room full of people and felt like the loneliest girl in the world.”
― Sarra Manning, Guitar Girl

“We're broken. It's like we have all these jagged edges that scare other people off, but when we're with each other, our jagged edges fit together and we're almost whole.”
― Sarra Manning, Unsticky

“But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through,’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“The Ad♥rkable Manifesto

1. We have nothing to declare but our dorkiness.
2. Jumble sales are our shopping malls.
3. Better to make cookies than be a cookie-cutter.
4. Suffering doesn’t necessarily improve you but it does give you something to blog about.
5. Experiment with Photoshop, hair dye, nail polish and cupcake flavours but never drugs.
6. Don’t follow leaders, be one.
7. Necessity is the mother of customisation.
8. Puppies make everything better.
9. Quiet girls rarely make history.
10. Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness like a shield.”
― Sarra Manning, Adorkable

“I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days".”
― Sarra Manning, Kiss and Make Up

“Then what he said and how he said it won't be important any more. What will be important are all the things you never got to say.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“And suddenly I got what the big deal was about kissing. How someone could suck on your bottom lip and make you come completely undone. That someone stroking the hair back from your face could make you swoon and someone sliding his hands underneath your top could make you feel wanted for the first time in your life.”
― Sarra Manning, Let's Get Lost

“Each kiss was like biting into the richest darkest chocolate and pausing to savour the taste.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Just once, I'd like to find a boy. And I like him and he likes me. And we have a laugh and the kissing's really good and there's no-one getting in the way of the laughing and the kissing. Is that too much to ask?”
― Sarra Manning, Kiss and Make Up

“What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom”
― Sarra Manning

“Excuse me?’ she spat, and as Dougie and Celia always pointed out, it didn’t matter that Neve never swore because she could make ‘Excuse me?’ sound like ‘Go fuck yourself.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.”
― Sarra Manning

“I was a heartless, ungrateful wench of a girl who promised everyone who came into contact with me a one-way ticket to pain and hurt. I didn’t know how to love and I didn’t deserve to be loved back.”
― Sarra Manning

“You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.”
― Sarra Manning, Adorkable

“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Sometimes it frightens me how much I enjoy behaving like a complete cow.”
― Sarra Manning, Kiss and Make Up

“If Madonna loves me, then you will too.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.”
― Sarra Manning

“There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.”
― sarra manning, Kiss and Make Up

“...occasionally I can be quite evil, when there's no-one around to realise.”
― Sarra Manning, Kiss and Make Up

“I realised something else tonight. Something about pancakes.’

‘What about them?’

‘We both got so obsessed about that first pancake being thrown away that we forgot something really important,’ Max explained. ‘That first pancake tastes just as good as all the other ones. It’s not its fault that it was first in line and the pan wasn’t hot enough so it got a bit lumpy and misshapen.’

‘And when you’re really famished that first pancake tastes better than all the ones that come after it,’ Neve said, and then she couldn’t wait any longer. Her arms were around Max before she’d even finished forming the thought, but his arms were around her too in that exact same moment.

Just having him there to hold, warm and solid and real, was enough for five seconds, and then she was peppering his face with kisses – his forehead, his eyebrows, the tip of his crooked nose, along his cheekbones until she reached the glittering prize of his mouth.

Sometimes Neve thought that her appetite was the most robust thing about her, and she didn’t kiss Max so much as she devoured him. Graceless, messy kisses without any thought or reason, but simply because she hungered for him. Kissed him with everything she had and everything she was, and she didn’t know why she could kiss Max and have him kiss her back with the same fierceness but still be greedy for the next kiss and the one after that and the one after that and the one…”
― Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Generation Y are everything you feared. They’re everything your worst nightmares conjured up. They’re lazy, apathetic, unoriginal, scared of innovation, scared of difference, just plain scared. They binge drink. The confuse sex for intimacy. They definitely couldn’t tell you the capital cities of more than five countries. And they really think that Justin Bieber is the Second Coming. Only fifty per cent of Generation Y own more than two books and, yes, they listen to music, but they download it from the internet because content is free, yo. Want, take, have is their battle cry. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my generation and my generation is royally screwed up.”
― Sarra Manning, Adorkable