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Neve: 'Have I told you how much I hate you lately?'
Celia: 'All the time and right back at you.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Neve: 'Have I told you
Was there a better sound in the world than a champagne cork popping? Hell, no.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Was there a better sound
Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Dorkdom isn't something you can
Think of something to say. Keep him here. Something funny and interesting and cool.
"I put my wellies on because I was sure it was going to rain and now my feet are getting horribly moist," Ellie said, and it was the single worst thing she'd ever said to anyone.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Think of something to say.
There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.
Sarra Manning Quotes: There was only one way
So, you know what? I'm not ready to write Gen Y off just yet and neither should you, because I think we're going to grow up just fine. Yeah, it pains me to admit it, but the kids are all right.
Sarra Manning Quotes: So, you know what? I'm
Something diseased and furry had crawled into her mouth and expired while she slept. That was the only possible explanation as to why Neve had a rancid taste in her mouth and a heavy, viscous paste coating her teeth and tongue.

'I think I'm dying,' she groaned. The wretched state of her mouth was the least of it. There was a pounding in her head, echoed in the roiling of her gut, and her bones ached, her vital organs ached, her throat ached, even her hair follicles ached.

'You're not dying,' said a voice in her ear, which sounded like nails scraping down a blackboard, even though Max's voice had barely risen above a whisper. 'You've got a hangover.'

Neve had had hangovers before and they just made her feel a tiny bit nauseous and grouchy. This felt like the bastard child of bubonic plague and the ebola virus.

'Dying,' she reiterated, and now she realised that she was in bed, which had been a very comfy bed the last time she'd slept in it, but now it felt as if she was lying on a pile of rocks, and even though she had the quilt and Max's arm tucked around her, she was still cold and clammy. Neve tried to raise her head but her gaze collided with the stripy wallpaper and as well as searing her retinas, it was making her stomach heave. 'Sick. Going to be sick.'

'Sweetheart, I don't think so,' Max said, stroking the back of her neck with feather-soft fingers. 'You've already thrown up just about everything you've eaten in the
Sarra Manning Quotes: Something diseased and furry had
Maybe relationships shouldn't be such hard work ...
Sarra Manning Quotes: Maybe relationships shouldn't be such
So you don't fancy meeting up again?' Max persisted, though Neve didn't know why, because she thought she'd made her position perfectly clear. 'Swap war stories?'
'I don't have any war stories,' Neve said, and in that moment she felt that she never would. That every night would be spent creeping round her flat in her socks with the telly turned down so low that she could barely hear it, so in the end she'd have no other option but to escape into the pages of books where there were other girls falling in and out of love but not her. Never her. She stared down at the scuffed toes of her faux Ugg boots in sudden and tired defeat.
'If you don't have any war stories, then at least you don't have any war wounds,' Max said, so quietly that Neve had to strain her ears to catch his words. 'Take my number.
Sarra Manning Quotes: So you don't fancy meeting
...my awkward silence default setting kicked in.
Sarra Manning Quotes: ...my awkward silence default setting
I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days.
Sarra Manning Quotes: I smile. I smile all
Ari had discovered a contraband Barbie bangle in her weekend case and had gone on an hour's rant that contained words like 'body fascism' and 'third-wave feminism', then made Ellie write out fifty times, 'Barbie is a toxic plastic tool of a patriarchal culture.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Ari had discovered a contraband
It's so stupid how someone touching you - just their skin on your skin - can make you feel all sorts of things you don't want to feel.
Sarra Manning Quotes: It's so stupid how someone
Can this really call itself a cake when its main ingredients are cheese and carrots?
Sarra Manning Quotes: Can this really call itself
Getting money from my dad is a finesse job. Luckily, I have finesse coming out of my arse. I barged into his study without knocking, marched across to his desk, and held out my hand. "Give me twenty pounds," I snapped. "I need twenty pounds. Give it to me. Now!
Sarra Manning Quotes: Getting money from my dad
Secrets aren't the same as lying,' Vaughn commented, because they both had the muddiest of ethics, which was an odd thing to have in common.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Secrets aren't the same as
But really it says everything that's wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasn't even written by one of those footballer girlfriends, and yet most of the shortlisted titles on the Orange Prize, which is an award for women writers, don't even sell ten thousand copies. It's just not right.
Sarra Manning Quotes: But really it says everything
What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.
Sarra Manning Quotes: What you look like is
He didn't say anything and I thought I'd shocked him, because I tend to do that. Not just with Michael but with pretty much anyone who can't deal with being honest and admitting that you have wants and needs and desires and all those other fun things.
Sarra Manning Quotes: He didn't say anything and
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 Quotes: Just once, I'd like to
I was rolling my eyes so hard that I was sure one of my retinas had just detached itself
Sarra Manning Quotes: I was rolling my eyes
If Madonna loves me, then you will too.
Sarra Manning Quotes: If Madonna loves me, then
I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck.
There can be no other explanation.
Sarra Manning Quotes: I think sometimes she lies
Then May gave way to June, and it felt as if time was slipping through her fingers.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Then May gave way to
I just couldn't understand how you could go from being alive, from having molecules and blood cells constantly shifting around inside you, and thought processes and a mind full of memories and dreams and love and hate, and in just one tiny second these miraculous things stop and you're dead. How could all that disappear? What happened to your soul, your essence, your wonder? Just because a muscle stops beating? It made absolutely no sense.
Sarra Manning Quotes: I just couldn't understand how
Despite their difference, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Despite their difference, because of
That was the deal with the really good-looking boys: they automatically assumed you were pining and panting for them and wouldn't be satisfied until you'd had their babies, no matter how ugly their personalities might be.
Sarra Manning Quotes: That was the deal with
But please eat at the table and use a coaster.
Sarra Manning Quotes: But please eat at the
Mostly she just missed Vaughn. Missed all those quiet, unspectacular moments that, when added up, showed how entwined their lives had become. And right now, she missed being able to phone him, because it would be so easy to tap in the eleven digits that would put his voice on the line. 'Grace, about bloody time,' he'd say, and make it sound like an endearment.

But she couldn't call Vaughn, because she'd left him. Which was a novelty, until Grace remembered that he'd have left her eventually if she hadn't done it first. She was never the one. She was never even the one before the one. She was the girl who seemed like a good idea at the time, but ultimately was just a phase that people went through.

That was the way it had always been. Friends and lovers came and went because there was something about her which repelled them, and she didn't have a clue what it was. It was a mystery that she couldn't solve on her own, and there wasn't a single person in the world who could help . . .
Sarra Manning Quotes: Mostly she just missed Vaughn.
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 Quotes: That was the worst thing
People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.
Sarra Manning Quotes: People don't want you to
My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.
Sarra Manning Quotes: My whole life had split
I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he's too much of a control freak to give in to it.
Sarra Manning Quotes: I think Vaughn has Social
It would be like Cinderella moaning about getting blisters from her glass slippers.
Sarra Manning Quotes: It would be like Cinderella
It wasn't like I'd woken up and decided to be a bitch, it was more like I'd woken up to find bitchiness thrust upon me.
Sarra Manning Quotes: It wasn't like I'd woken
But I had to admit that maybe the reason I'd had a meltdown wasn't just about the shower. I think the shower door was, like, a metaphor. It represented everything that was bad.
Sarra Manning Quotes: But I had to admit
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 Quotes: The Ad♥rkable Manifesto<br /> <br
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 Quotes: We're broken. It's like we
It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and ... and ... she reacted so beautifully.
Sarra Manning Quotes: It was just she was
She heard Piers give an excited little cry and someone gave an excited little cry in return, and Grace Vaughn appeared in the open doorway, laden down with garment bags.

For one fleeting moment, Ellie saw both husband and wife's faces light up before they resembled their usual expressions – a scowl and a pout respectively.
Sarra Manning Quotes: She heard Piers give an
Secrets aren´t the same as lying.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Secrets aren´t the same as
How is dear Charlotte?' Celia asked sweetly, then launched into an account of how they'd been having their usual 'Fucking shut up', 'No, you fucking shut up', row a couple of evenings ago, when Yuri had opened the front door of their flat to scream up the stairs, 'Why don't both of you fucking shut up?
Sarra Manning Quotes: How is dear Charlotte?' Celia
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 Quotes: I realised something else tonight.
What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom
Sarra Manning Quotes: What she lacks in poetry
Brie! Do Beyonce or Christina or whichever lame MTV diva you're mostly admiring this week waste their time with what-ifs? No, they spend all their energy on looking fabulous and cutting down any bitch that dares get in their way.-Charlie
Sarra Manning Quotes: Brie! Do Beyonce or Christina
Happiness really isn't that hard to find.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Happiness really isn't that hard
And being alone and being lonely were two different things but they felt exactly the same: they felt horrible.
Sarra Manning Quotes: And being alone and being
No, the single most humiliating part of the whole fucking humiliating exercise in abject humiliation was that somewhere between then and now, Grace had actually thought Vaughn was a nice guy,
Sarra Manning Quotes: No, the single most humiliating
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 Quotes: I was a heartless, ungrateful
One day you'll wake up and find that the pain's still there but it doesn't hurt quite so much.
Sarra Manning Quotes: One day you'll wake up
Stayed. I feel like life happens to other people, and I drift in and out of their lives without ever making any kind of impact. I want to matter to someone.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Stayed. I feel like life
You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!
Sarra Manning Quotes: You took out a book
Like that whole Nicole Richie look was SO over
Sarra Manning Quotes: Like that whole Nicole Richie
Immediately, I wanted to gather up everything I'd just said and stuff it back into my mouth. But once you've said stuff, you can't unsay it. Your words are out there, aren't they? Buzzing around in the quiet of the room so you can hear them echoing back at you...
Sarra Manning Quotes: Immediately, I wanted to gather
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 Quotes: Then what he said and
How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.
Sarra Manning Quotes: How strange that the years
People were so scared of telling the truth because the truth was chaotic and complicated and decidedly uncool, but uncool was the way I rolled. Or it would be if I used tired old phrases like 'That's the way I roll', which I so don't.
Sarra Manning Quotes: People were so scared of
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 Quotes: I'd always thought that my
The only people who spoke to her were Jimmy Vaughn, who was sweet when he wasn't wasted, though he was wasted all the time ...
Sarra Manning Quotes: The only people who spoke
What the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?
Sarra Manning Quotes: What the hell was an
Adorkable is a freeform, loose-knit, organic network of like-minded souls who might get pushed to the ground for the way we think and the way we look and because we're not afraid of who we are, but my God we're looking up at the stars.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Adorkable is a freeform, loose-knit,
We don't stop, not even when we reach the finish line. It's a journey for life, Neve.
Sarra Manning Quotes: We don't stop, not even
Sometimes it frightens me how much I enjoy behaving like a complete cow.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Sometimes it frightens me how
Bitch is just a word that boys say when they don't have the power to hurt you any more.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Bitch is just a word
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 Quotes: The thing about love was
Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Because, when everything else is
I'm going that way too. I live in Crouch End. Do you want to share a black cab?'
Black cabs were an extravagance that Neve couldn't afford, not this far away from payday, but that wasn't the reason why she declined. 'No,
thank you. I'm perfectly all right with catching the tube.'
'OK, tube it is,' Max agreed, because he was quite obviously emotionally tone deaf and couldn't sense the huge 'kindly bugger off' vibes that
Neve was sure she was emitting. 'You're still mad at me, aren't you?'
'You apologised, why would I still be mad at you?'
'One day we'll laugh about this. When little Tommy asks how we met, I'll say, "Well, son, I threw an ice cube at your mother, then slapped her
arse, and we've been inseparable ever since.
Sarra Manning Quotes: I'm going that way too.
...occasionally I can be quite evil, when there's no-one around to realise.
Sarra Manning Quotes: ...occasionally I can be quite
Vaughn folded his arms. 'The reason why you've lasted longer than most of your erstwhile colleagues is because you don't do drama. I don't like drama. I get enough drama at home. My wife could teach the RSC a few things about drama.'

For someone who claimed that he didn't do drama, Vaughn was one of the biggest drama queens she knew.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Vaughn folded his arms. 'The
Max didn't take his hands off her. As they walked to where he'd parked the hired car, he kept his arm round her shoulders, even though he was carrying her cases in his other hand and they kept bumping him.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Max didn't take his hands
So, what did you want to watch?'

'Thought we might play a game instead,' he said, holding up a familiar dark green box. 'Found this on the bottom shelf of your DVD cupboard … if you tilt the glass, the champagne won't froth like that.'

Neve finished pouring champagne into the 50p champagne flutes she'd got from the discount store and waited until Max had drunk a good half of his in two swift swallows. 'The thing is, you might find it hard to believe but I can be very competitive and I have an astonishing vocabulary from years spent having no life and reading a lot – and well, if you play Scrabble with me, I'll totally kick your arse.'

Max was about to eat his first bite of molten mug cake but he paused with the spoon halfway to his mouth. 'You're gonna kick my arse?'

'Until it's black and blue and you won't be able to sit down for a week.' That sounded very arrogant. 'Really, Max, Mum stopped me from playing when I was thirteen after I got a score of four hundred and twenty-seven, and when I was at Oxford, I used to play with two Linguistics post-grads and an English don.'

'Well, my little pancake girlfriend, I played Scrabble against Carol Vorderman for a Guardian feature and I kicked her arse because Scrabble has got nothing to do with vocabulary; it's logic and tactics,' Max informed her loftily, taking a huge bite of the cake.

For a second, Neve hoped that it was as foul-tasting as she suspected just to get
Sarra Manning Quotes: So, what did you want
He was old-fashioned looking, Grace decided. Not just the suit, which made him look as though he should be taking the air in one of those fifties movies on the French Riviera, but as if he was the second male lead in one of those same films. Not matinee-idol handsome enough to get the girl, but good enough to be the best friend of the one who got the girl. Or the arch nemesis of the one who got the girl who had his comeuppance ten minutes before the credits began to roll.
Sarra Manning Quotes: He was old-fashioned looking, Grace
Can we have a time-out on the self-criticism for the rest of the evening?"
"Not the rest of the evening. I can do about half an hour and then force of habit takes over.
Sarra Manning Quotes: Can we have a time-out
You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.
Sarra Manning Quotes: You are bad and mean
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 Quotes: And suddenly I got what
You're in my light and this is my special spot so go away.
Sarra Manning Quotes: You're in my light and
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