Sophie Kinsella Quotes

“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.”

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

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

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

“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?”

“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!”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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'.”

“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.”

“A real relationship is two-way.”

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

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

“You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.”

“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?”

“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”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.

I'm old.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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)”