Top 35 Sarra Manning Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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

— Sarra Manning

3. “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

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he’s too much of a control freak to give in to it.”

— Sarra Manning

9. “One taste wasn’t enough. You couldn’t just give a girl a glimpse of a better life and slam the door in her face.”

— Sarra Manning

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

— Sarra Manning

11. “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

12. “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

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

— Sarra Manning

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

— Sarra Manning

15. “Because, when everything else is gone, all we’re left with is our imaginations.”

— Sarra Manning

16. “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.”

— Sarra Manning

17. “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

18. “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

19. “And being alone and being lonely were two different things but they felt exactly the same: they felt horrible.”

— Sarra Manning

20. “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

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

— Sarra Manning

22. “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

23. “What you look like is just one part of who you are – but it’s not all you are.”

— Sarra Manning

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

— Sarra Manning

25. “But please eat at the table and use a coaster.”

— Sarra Manning

26. “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

27. “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

28. “Happiness really isn’t that hard to find.”

— Sarra Manning

29. “What the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?”

— Sarra Manning

30. “I’d always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched people. The me that would one day find some beautiful, intelligent boy who’d recognize me as his soul mate. The me who was secretly pretty and stylish if only someone would lift the veil and see. But I was beginning to suspect that underneath the awkwardness there was just more awkwardness and not much else. And that would explain why I stood in a room full of people and felt like the loneliest girl in the world.”

— Sarra Manning

31. “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

32. “I just couldn’t understand how you could go from being alive, from having molecules and blood cells constantly shifting around inside you, and thought processes and a mind full of memories and dreams and love and hate, and in just one tiny second these miraculous things stop and you’re dead. How could all that disappear? What happened to your soul, your essence, your wonder? Just because a muscle stops beating? It made absolutely no sense.”

— Sarra Manning

33. “I always thought I hated the bastard, but knowing that I’m never going to get the chance to tell him how much I hated him breaks my heart.”

— Sarra Manning

34. “It was too hot for leather jackets even if you were a wannabe indie rock star in your very wildest dreams.”

— Sarra Manning

35. “Time for a whole new you,’ the make-up artist had said, and Grace wondered why everyone was so down on the old Grace. She hadn’t been that bad.”

— Sarra Manning