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It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.
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There are some things I don't understand about Jess and never will. No wedding dress. No flowers. No photo album. No champagne. The only thing she got out of her wedding was a husband. (I mean, obviously the husband is the main point when you get married. Absolutely. That goes without saying. But still, not even a new pair of shoes?)
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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?
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That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I still believe it was.
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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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Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
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And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.
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A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.
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Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
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Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.
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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Sophie Kinsella
Born:
December 12, 1969
(age 54)
Bio:
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, also known under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author of chick lit.
Known for:
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2000)
Can You Keep a Secret? (2003)
Remember Me? (2008)
The Undomestic Goddess (2006)
Twenties Girl (2009)
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