Quotes from Sarra Manning

Being a UN Goodwill Ambassador was really cramping her style.

She was finally beginning to understand that her fixation on being a size ten had been another excuse to spend her life in preparation, instead of living it and taking risks and maybe getting hurt in the process.

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.

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.

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

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

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".

And suddenly I got what the big deal was about kissing. How someone could suck on your bottom lip and make you come completely undone. That someone stroking the hair back from your face could make you swoon and someone sliding his hands underneath your top could make you feel wanted for the first time in your life.

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

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.

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!

If Madonna loves me, then you will too.