Sophie Kinsella Quotes

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I had fun. That's what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.

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You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy!

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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.

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I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.

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Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

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This is what's so annoying about going out with Luke. You can't get away with anything.

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

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If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in the office, asking them what was going on today and had they heard anything new and what did they think was going to happen. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in an office job.

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

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Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away.

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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.

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Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.

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

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Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse. (Mom - to Lara Lington)

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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.

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If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?

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

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I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly possible. Becky talking about cutting back with her parents.

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For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). 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.

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When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

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