Sophie Kinsella Quotes

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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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Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Emma, your granddad's on the line, says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. Something about the night bus and he'll never trust you again?

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You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

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

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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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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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I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

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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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Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.

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I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and Lady Favisham was quite clearly sitting on the right-hand side of the fireplace." Bollocks. They have no idea where Lady Favisham was, they just don't want to admit it in front of Poirot. I'm amazed he gets anywhere.

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

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Everyone keeps saying I'll pick it up. But what if I don't? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

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I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper's come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don't know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.

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

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

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Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

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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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If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

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This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels

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

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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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Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

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

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