It Felt Like a Kiss Quotes

“Never complain, never explain.”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“Vaughn folded his arms. ‘The reason why you’ve lasted longer than most of your erstwhile colleagues is because you don’t do drama. I don’t like drama. I get enough drama at home. My wife could teach the RSC a few things about drama.'

For someone who claimed that he didn’t do drama, Vaughn was one of the biggest drama queens she knew.”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“She settled for snatching up the apple strudel still warm in its tinfoil shroud and throwing it at him. ‘I’ll give you darkness, you sanctimonious fucker!”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“Don’t ever leave us again. Vaughn has been horrible. Like pre-Grace horrible.”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“Ari had discovered a contraband Barbie bangle in her weekend case and had gone on an hour’s rant that contained words like ‘body fascism’ and ‘third-wave feminism’, then made Ellie write out fifty times, ‘Barbie is a toxic plastic tool of a patriarchal culture.”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“She heard Piers give an excited little cry and someone gave an excited little cry in return, and Grace Vaughn appeared in the open doorway, laden down with garment bags.

For one fleeting moment, Ellie saw both husband and wife’s faces light up before they resembled their usual expressions – a scowl and a pout respectively.”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“Why are you talking? Who gave you permission to talk?’ Vaughn demanded. ‘In circumstances like this, we close ranks. Never complain, never explain, right?”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“The only people who spoke to her were Jimmy Vaughn, who was sweet when he wasn’t wasted, though he was wasted all the time...”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“But please eat at the table and use a coaster.”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“[She] had occasionally glimpsed a series of interchangeable well-groomed blondes accompanying him to work events, then Grace had rocked up with her funny-coloured hair and her funny-coloured tights, and Vaughn had been smitten. Well, as smitten as Vaughn could be.”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss

“Nora Ephron quote: ‘Be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.”
― Sarra Manning, It Felt Like a Kiss