Quotes From "You Dont Have To Say You Love Me" By 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

What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb. Sherman Alexie

I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? Sherman Alexie

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. Sherman Alexie

Having a relationship and not even a sexual one is so straight, it's practically perverted. Sarra Manning

An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. Sherman Alexie

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive. Sherman Alexie

You’re always making up stuff from the past, ” she said. “And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened. Sherman Alexie

I’d think about you and how I didn’t want us to end. It’s complicated…’ Max still held her, his thumbs stroking the spot on her wrists where her pulse was thundering away. ‘Uncomplicate it then. Did you miss Sarra Manning

It wasn't a perfect body but it was the body she deserved. Not just from every bar of chocolate or bag of crisps or laden plate of food that she'd eaten. This body was also testament to all the hours in the gym and cycling up hills on her bike and glugging down two litres of water a day and learning to love vegetables and fruits that didn't come as optional extra with a pastry crust. She'd earned this body. This was her body and she had to stop giving it such a hard time. Sarra Manning

When I saw you on the stairs before, I’d forgotten how beautiful you are, ’ he whispered against her skin.‘ Spotty, not beautiful, ’ she corrected gently, running her finger along his crooked nose. ‘Now you, you’re beautiful.’‘ I even missed your inferiority complex.’ Max smiled and shifted against her.‘ Not being inferior. It’s a point of fact. I’m covered in zits, ’ Neve said and she didn’t know why she felt the need to share that with Max but then she was glad that she had because he was kissing each one of the angry red bumps along her forehead and chin and cheeks, even though a few of them were starting to suppurate. ‘Don’t do that, it’s completely unhygienic. Kiss my mouth instead. Sarra Manning

I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist. Sherman Alexie

I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes–famous and not–are usually aimless nomads in disguise. Sherman Alexie

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