Quotes from Sarra Manning

Happiness really isn't that hard to find.

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

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!

My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.

Having a relationship and not even a sexual one is so straight, it's practically perverted.

It wasn't a perfect body but it was the body she deserved. Not just from every bar of chocolate or bag of crisps or laden plate of food that she'd eaten. This body was also testament to all the hours in the gym and cycling up hills on her bike and glugging down two litres of water a day and learning to love vegetables and fruits that didn't come as optional extra with a pastry crust. She'd earned this body. This was her body and she had to stop giving it such a hard time.

How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.

We don't stop, not even when we reach the finish line. It's a journey for life, Neve.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

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.

Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.

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.

I was rolling my eyes so hard that I was sure one of my retinas had just detached itself

my awkward silence default setting kicked in.

You're in my light and this is my special spot so go away.

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.

Can this really call itself a cake when its main ingredients are cheese and carrots?

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?

No one gets through life scot-free. Shit happens. I's how you deal with it that shapes you, not the actual event itself.

I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck. There can be no other explanation.

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?

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.

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".

Veronique and Dylan having the mother of all arguments. I mean, it had a plot and a subplot and several walk-on parts....