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.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.”

“If Madonna loves me, then you will too.”

“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.”

“I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.”

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

“I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days".”

“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.”

“Each kiss was like biting into the richest darkest chocolate and pausing to savour the taste.”

“What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom”

“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.”

“You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.”

“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!”

“… occasionally I can be quite evil, when there's no-one around to realise.”

“Sometimes it frightens me how much I enjoy behaving like a complete cow.”