Moonlight Over Manhattan Quotes

“When she was reading, she didn’t just leave her own life behind, she stepped into someone else’s.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“If you don’t push yourself to do the things that scare you, how will you ever find out if there’s more to life than the one you’re living?”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“Books had always been a comfort to her. More than comfort. There were times when reading came close to an addiction.

When things had been tough at home, Harriet’s solution had been to remove herself from life and disappear. She’d chosen to be invisible. Sometimes physically, by hiding under the table, but sometimes psychologically by diving into a literary world unlike her own.

As a child she’d liked to sink into the pages and lose herself for hours at a time. When she was reading, she didn’t just leave her own life behind, she stepped into someone else’s. There were times when she’d read for hours without noticing the passage of time or the onset of darkness. When it grew too dark to read, she simply switched on her flashlight and read under the covers so that she didn’t disturb her sister, who was sleeping in the next bed. At school, she carried her book around. When things were difficult, the weight of her bag would comfort her. It helped just to know the book was there, waiting for her. At various points in the day she’d feel the edges bump against her thigh, reminding her of its existence. It was like having a friend close by, telling her I’m still here and we can spend time together later.

Even now, more than a decade on from that difficult time of her life, she found herself instinctively reaching for a book when she was stressed. Comfort was different things to different people. To some it was a bar of chocolate or a glass of wine, a run in the park or coffee with a friend.

To Harriet, it was a book.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“She enjoyed cooking, but there was so much more to her enjoyment than simply a fascination with recipes and food. For her, cooking and eating was symbolic of something bigger. Cooking was her way of expressing love. A way of creating a warm, comforting space...”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“If a woman can't help another woman in trouble, where would we be?”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“In a world where extroverts were celebrated, she was an introvert.”
― Sarah Morgan, Midnight at Tiffany's

“How cool is that? To be the one bright spot in someone’s day?”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“In our house DNA means Do Not Argue.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“In fiction, characters could punch their bosses and get away with it.

In real life, you lost your job, and then you were dining on Cup-a-Soup seven nights a week instead of four.”
― Sarah Morgan, Midnight at Tiffany's

“Quiet doesn’t mean you don’t have important things to say. Just that you might take your time saying them.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“wanted them to be. If she”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“Envy, she decided, was a truly uncomfortable emotion. It said things about you that you didn't want to hear.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“Women do cook for themselves you know. You think when we’re on our own we sob into a lonely bowl of cereal? This may come as a surprise, but cooking isn’t something we only do when there is a man around.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“Talking to Daniel is like watching the news. You come away thinking the world is ending. It distorts your view of reality, which is that every day, all over the world, people are doing good things for other people and those things are never made public.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“Of course she told me voluntarily.” Harriet lifted her eyebrows. “Or maybe you think I tied her to the sofa and tortured her with Earl Grey tea?”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“You need to present yourself as a twenty-year-old pole dancer.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“No one lies down in this place. Unless they’re dead. When you’re dead, you get to lie down and only after we’ve tried to resuscitate you.”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“I live my life in my comfort zone...”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“She was the sort of woman men wanted to help. Not the sort they wanted to help themselves to…”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“Hot he might be, but he wasn’t her type at all…”
― Sarah Morgan, Moonlight Over Manhattan

“technically, her last disaster hadn’t been her fault she knew another accident would get her fired. Her brief was to be invisible, and she considered herself perfectly qualified for the job. In a world where extroverts were celebrated, she was an introvert. She’d spent most of her life blending into the background. First in the playground, where she’d hidden away in books written by other people, and then at college, when she’d hidden in the books she’d written herself. Lost in her own fictional world, she became each and every one of her heroines and endowed them with qualities she herself coveted, namely courage, communication skills and coordination. Her current creation was Lara Striker, small-town girl finally returning home and trying to live down her badgirl reputation. Matilda stared through the crowd, her mind”
― Sarah Morgan, Midnight at Tiffany's