Sophie Kinsella citations

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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!”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”