Quotes from book

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

“I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories”

“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.”

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

“you can always find something you want.”

“We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.”