Quotes of Sarra Manning - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Sarra Manning

“ But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasn’t even written by one of those footballer girlfriends, and yet most of the shortlisted titles on the Orange Prize, which is an award for women writers, don’t even sell ten thousand copies. It’s just not right. ”

- Sarra Manning
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