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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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....

More quotations from 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 in Let's Get Lost

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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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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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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More quotations tagged with “noticing”

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I'd done the right thing. I always did. It just would have been nice if someone had noticed.

—Sarah Dessen in Saint Anything

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The attitude that I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.

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