Nonie Quotes

“It's weird. Crow looks about ten and behaves like a ten-year-old in some ways. She can be very stubborn, for a start, and she just ignores you if she doesn't want to answer a question. But as soon as you start to talk about fashion, you'd swear she was at least twenty. And because we talk about fashion most of the time, I tend to forget.
Mind you, I'm only fourteen and I'd swear I was twenty sometimes. And Edie must be at least fifty in her head.”
― Sophia Bennett, Threads

“I'm used to lying to grown-ups. It's a habit I got into. It simplifies things.”
― Sophia Bennett, Beads, Boys and Bangles

“Lovely is my new word, I've decided. Lovely means "back off and leave me alone, I'm confused".”
― Sophia Bennett, Beads, Boys and Bangles

“I'm about to flip out, but then I suddenly realize what she's saying. She means she's not going to waste that bit of her brain that could be thinking about corsages by worrying about Amanda Elat, when there's nothing she can do about it now anyway. As a plan of action, it's not as dumb as I thought.”
― Sophia Bennett, Beads, Boys and Bangles

“If this is the real world, I don't like it. None of us does”
― Sophia Bennett, Beads, Boys and Bangles

“My insides may be taking a while to catch up, but my brain has definitely moved on.”
― Sophia Bennett, Beads, Boys and Bangles

“Liam said the whole thing's ridiculous and he's probably right. It probably does look ridiculous from a distance. But from the right in the middle, it feels as lonely as I can possibly imagine.”
― Sophia Bennett, Sequins, Stars and Spotlights