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Madeleine Sophie Wickham , also known under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author of chick lit. The first two novels in her best-selling Shopaholic series, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Abroad, were adapted into the film Confessions of a Shopaholic . Her books have been translated into over 30 languages.

✵ 12. December 1969
Sophie Kinsella photo

Works

I've Got Your Number
I've Got Your Number
Sophie Kinsella
Twenties Girl
Twenties Girl
Sophie Kinsella
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
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Famous Sophie Kinsella Quotes

“It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out.”

Sophie Kinsella book Finding Audrey

Source: Finding Audrey

“I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“Mummy always told me, you should never let a man see your feelings or the contents of your handbag.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.”

Sophie Kinsella book Mini Shopaholic

Source: Mini Shopaholic

“Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Abroad

Source: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella Quotes about life

“Life takes us on different paths… It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them.
(Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

“Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail…”

Sophie Kinsella

“If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

“The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

Sophie Kinsella Quotes about people

“But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

“So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“People who want to make a million borrow a million first”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Abroad

Source: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

“Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.”

Sophie Kinsella book Finding Audrey

Source: Finding Audrey

“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Sophie Kinsella: Trending quotes

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”

Sophie Kinsella

Source: Shopaholic & Baby

Sophie Kinsella Quotes

“Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

“We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."

"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great."

"Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“A real relationship is two-way.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“No human on God's earth is a nobody.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Abroad

Source: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back… you might as well wish the sky were red.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“If it's in the bin, it's public property.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

“If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be…”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Abroad

Source: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking… a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.”

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“I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile. Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere.
I mean… you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Source: Shopaholic Ties the Knot

“Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

“We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that.”

Sophie Kinsella book Finding Audrey

Source: Finding Audrey

“We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”

Sophie Kinsella

“All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. - Sam Roxton”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.”

Sophie Kinsella

Source: Shopaholic & Baby

“That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Abroad

Source: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be…

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.

I'm old.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

“It's a GIRL.
It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.”

Sophie Kinsella

Source: Shopaholic & Baby

“Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this.. then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon”

Sophie Kinsella book Mini Shopaholic

Source: Mini Shopaholic

“They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.

OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

“He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“Every instinct in me wants to text someone OMG, I've lost my phone! but how can I do that without a bloody phone?”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.
(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)”

Sophie Kinsella

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