Sarra Manning citations

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.”

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

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

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