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

—Sarra Manning in You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

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About Sarra Manning

Sarra Manning is an English writer and journalist. She attended the University of Sussex and took 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 Just Seventeen....

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

—Sarra Manning in Let's Get Lost

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

—Sarra Manning in You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

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It was another of those big life-changing moments when you didn’t know what the next ten seconds would bring but you knew that nothing would ever be the same after.

—Sarra Manning in Unsticky

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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 in Guitar Girl

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It's been a lifelong problem of mine that those I've been closest to are the ones I've had the least influence on. My parents, my sister, my wife, even my cat — or maybe I should say especially my cat — have never really taken me seriously. That may help to explain why I finished up making a career of peddling my thoughts to the world in general. At least the world in general doesn't automatically dismiss anything coming from me, that is, so long as I say it in a neat epigram of 17 words or less.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behavior and the sphere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

—George Bernard Shaw

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In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

—Willa Cather

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