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Sarra Manning is a writer from England. She attended the University of Sussex and took up an English with Media Studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to Melody Maker. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine J-17. Manning was the editor of Elle Girl , then re-launched What To Wear magazine for the BBC and has worked on UK magazines such as Bliss and The Face. She's contributed to ELLE, Seventeen, The Guardian and Details and is a contributing editor to ELLE UK and writes regularly for Grazia, Red and Stella, as well as consulting for a number of British magazine publishers. She has been dubbed the "teen queen extraordinaire" following the release of her hit teen fiction book Guitar Girl, and the popular Diary of a Crush trilogy. Her first adult novel, Unsticky was published by Headline in 2009. Her next teen novel, Nobody's Girl was published in 2010, and a second adult novel, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, was published in February 2011. Her third adult novel, titled Nine Uses for an Ex-Boyfriend, was published in February 2012.

She currently lives in North London with her Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Miss Betsy.

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Famous 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

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“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

Source: 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

Source: Kiss and Make Up

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

Sarra Manning

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Sarra Manning Quotes about love

“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

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

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

Sarra Manning

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“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

Sarra Manning Quotes

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

Sarra Manning

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

Sarra Manning

Source: 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

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“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

Source: 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

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

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

Sarra Manning

Source: 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

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

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

Sarra Manning

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

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

Sarra Manning

“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

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

Sarra Manning

Source: 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

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

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

Sarra Manning

Source: Kiss and Make Up

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

Sarra Manning

Source: Kiss and Make Up

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