Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Sarra Manning

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Sarra Manning.

Last updated on November 24, 2024.

Sarra Manning is an English writer and journalist. She attended the University of Sussex and took up an English with Media Studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to Melody Maker. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine J-17. Manning was the editor of Elle Girl, then re-launched What To Wear magazine for the BBC and has worked on UK magazines such as Bliss and The Face. She's contributed to ELLE, Seventeen, The Guardian and Details and is a contributing editor to ELLE UK and writes regularly for Grazia, Red and Stella, as well as consulting for a number of British magazine publishers. She has been dubbed the "teen queen extraordinaire" following the release of her hit teen fiction book Guitar Girl, and the popular Diary of a Crush trilogy.

English - Writer

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

Sarra Manning

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

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

Sarra Manning

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

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.

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

Sarra Manning

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.

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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

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

Sarra Manning

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

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

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

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

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