Top 91 Sarra Quotes
#1. The truth was, I yearned, in a soul-deep way, to be Sarra. To 'feel' that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading.
Lisa Wingate
#2. What the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?
Sarra Manning
#3. 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
#4. And once again, there was a table and several worlds between them.
Sarra Manning
#5. Now, Neve, are you about to say no to me?' 'Well, it's just that - ' 'Because the word "no" is not in my vocabulary, along with the words "can't" and "Victoria Beckham".
Sarra Manning
#6. No one gets through life scot-free. Shit happens. I's how you deal with it that shapes you, not the actual event itself.
Sarra Manning
#7. 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
#8. [She] had occasionally glimpsed a series of interchangeable well-groomed blondes accompanying him to work events, then Grace had rocked up with her funny-coloured hair and her funny-coloured tights, and Vaughn had been smitten. Well, as smitten as Vaughn could be.
Sarra Manning
#9. 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
#10. I wish you could see yourself the way I do," she said. "There is no one in this world or the next who deserves love and happiness more than you. And no matter what I see inside these memories, there's nothing that will ever take away from the love I feel for you. I hope you know that.
Sarra Cannon
#11. I went out with Veronique to take my mind of you, and when I'm with you I don't feel like I'm on a rebound, I feel like I've come home. It's like my world is just different combinations of black and white, but when you're around everything goes Technicolor. You're still the coolest girl I know.
Sarra Manning
#12. Thought about having one last kiss, but in the end the only way she could leave was to walk away without looking back.
Sarra Manning
#13. It would be like Cinderella moaning about getting blisters from her glass slippers.
Sarra Manning
#14. 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
#15. If I cared about what others thought, I would have applied more makeup to hide the dark circles under my eyes. But since I didn't care, I just played with the eyeliner and mascara as usual.
Sarra Cannon
#16. What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.
Sarra Manning
#17. I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days.
Sarra Manning
#18. My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.
Sarra Manning
#19. You're in my light and this is my special spot so go away.
Sarra Manning
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. When your mother doesn't want to have the sex talk with you any more but instead wants to talk about the possibility that you might have sex on her soft furnishings, it's a watershed moment in any girl's life. I know I'll remember it fondly for many years to come.
Sarra Manning
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he's too much of a control freak to give in to it.
Sarra Manning
#27. Don't ever leave us again. Vaughn has been horrible. Like pre-Grace horrible.
Sarra Manning
#28. You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.
Sarra Manning
#29. How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.
Sarra Manning
#30. Having a relationship and not even a sexual one is so straight, it's practically perverted.
Sarra Manning
#31. Neve: 'Have I told you how much I hate you lately?'
Celia: 'All the time and right back at you.
Sarra Manning
#32. Being drunk really brought out her inner vicious bitch.
Sarra Manning
#33. 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
#34. It was hard to understand how you could know someone all your life, think that you knew everything about them, then one Sunday they'd be standing in the kitchen of the flat that you both owned and seem like a total stranger
Sarra Manning
#35. 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
#36. Why are you talking? Who gave you permission to talk?' Vaughn demanded. 'In circumstances like this, we close ranks. Never complain, never explain, right?
Sarra Manning
#37. Like, if you're right for someone then shouldn't everything fall into place really easily..?
Sarra Manning
#38. Veronique and Dylan having the mother of all arguments. I mean, it had a plot and a subplot and several walk-on parts ...
Sarra Manning
#39. Then May gave way to June, and it felt as if time was slipping through her fingers.
Sarra Manning
#40. I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.
Sarra Manning
#41. 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
#42. I was rolling my eyes so hard that I was sure one of my retinas had just detached itself
Sarra Manning
#43. 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
#44. Despite their difference, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny.
Sarra Manning
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. She knew exactly what he meant. Despite their differences, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny. An out-of-step Fred and Ginger. Vaughn was just as fucked up as she was - he was just so much better at hiding it.
Sarra Manning
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. One day you'll wake up and find that the pain's still there but it doesn't hurt quite so much.
Sarra Manning
#51. She settled for snatching up the apple strudel still warm in its tinfoil shroud and throwing it at him. 'I'll give you darkness, you sanctimonious fucker!
Sarra Manning
#52. Like that whole Nicole Richie look was SO over
Sarra Manning
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. But please eat at the table and use a coaster.
Sarra Manning
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don't let stress steal your joy.
Sarra Cannon
#62. Maybe relationships shouldn't be such hard work ...
Sarra Manning
#63. And being alone and being lonely were two different things but they felt exactly the same: they felt horrible.
Sarra Manning
#64. Was there a better sound in the world than a champagne cork popping? Hell, no.
Sarra Manning
#65. When will being independent and strong and not following the pack and daring to be different and being brave in my opinions, my fashion choices and my hair colour be enough?
Sarra Manning
#66. We don't stop, not even when we reach the finish line. It's a journey for life, Neve.
Sarra Manning
#67. I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.
Sarra Manning
#68. Can this really call itself a cake when its main ingredients are cheese and carrots?
Sarra Manning
#69. Why does everyone worship them? I mean, they're beautiful but ... " I shrugged. "Lots of people in this world are beautiful."
"They're popular because they're cheerleaders," he said.
I rolled my eyes. "What is it with this town and cheerleaders?
Sarra Cannon
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. ...my awkward silence default setting kicked in.
Sarra Manning
#77. Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.
Sarra Manning
#78. I realized it was all a lie. This life I was living was a pretty picture on the outside, but it wasn't real. On the inside, it was hollow and meaningless and I realized that's not who I wanted to be for the rest of my life.
Sarra Cannon
#79. 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
#80. Anyway, I don't want anyone else, I just want Vaughn.' It was good to finally say it, as if Grace said it out loud then maybe the universe would get the message and send him back to her.
Sarra Manning
#81. You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!
Sarra Manning
#82. 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
#85. Each kiss was like biting into the richest darkest chocolate and pausing to savour the taste.
Sarra Manning
#86. Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.
Sarra Manning
#87. 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
#88. What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom
Sarra Manning
#90. I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.
Sarra Manning
#91. Another reason why people take me seriously is because I never apologise even when - no, especially when I should,' he told her coolly. 'No pleases, thank yous or sorries - remember that and you might have that interesting year I was talking about.
Sarra Manning
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