Top 100 Sophie Kinsella Quotes
#1. Why did he have to choose tonight to turn into the perfect husband?
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#2. 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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#4. I think talking to other people can bring its own unhelpful baggage. Sometimes you just need to talk to an entity. The void. Your God.
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#5. It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are.
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#7. 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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#8. I'm Cinderella. No, I'm better than Cinderella, because she only got the prince, didn't she? I'm Cinderella with fab teeth and a shit-hot job.
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#10. You sound like Darth Vader," I say bluntly. Elinor doesn't even flinch. "So be it," she says, and sips her water. That is totally a Darth Vader thing to say. Next she'll be ordering the destruction of a thousand innocent Jedi younglings.
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#11. And the truth is, the country is very cool. It's absolutely the new town.
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#12. I know exactly what Luke's doing. He's trying to push me and Suze together so we can make up. Which is really sweet of him. But I feel like a panda being told to mate with another panda that clearly doesn't fancy me.
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#13. 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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#14. No!" Linus sounds really shocked. Shocked, embarrassed, discomfited. Kind of mortified. Like he can't believe I would say that. (I'm getting all this from one syllable, you understand.)
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#15. But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.
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#16. Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.
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#17. Don't look back once, the entire time I'm talking to her. But I can feel his eyes on me all the time. Like sunshine.
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#18. The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.
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#19. 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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#20. No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.
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#21. He is a terrible human being. He's a shit. So don't dwell on him. Flush him out of your life. Gone.
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#22. We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.
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#23. Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.
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#24. You've gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you'd never be again.
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#26. Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? 'A fool and her money soon part.' Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale's.
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#27. 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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#28. This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.
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#29. Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.
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#30. Magnus," I say more gently. "Listen. There's no point doing this. Don't marry me just to prove you're not a quitter. Because you will quit, sooner or later. Whatever your intentions are. It'll happen."
"Rubbish," he says fiercely.
"You will. You don't love me enough for the long haul.
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#31. Everyone should keep a dream journal, did you know that?
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#32. In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.
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#35. The trouble is, depression doesn't come with handy symptoms like spots and a temperature, so you don't realize it at first. You keep saying "I'm fine" to people when you're not fine. You think you SHOULD be fine. You keep saying to yourself: "Why aren't I fine?
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#36. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.
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#37. But there's no point. He's busy with his life - and I'm busy with mine.
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#38. The first story is all about the president washing his piano. At least I'm pretty sure that's what presidente and lavoro pieno must mean
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#39. Oh God. I'm losing it. Everyone knows this is how criminals get caught. They add too many details and trip themselves up.
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#40. Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt
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#41. If you're single, then I'm single? What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?
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#42. 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!
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#43. 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.
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#44. I feel a hotness behind my eyes. I have no idea why. I don't know why I suddenly feel affected. I want to type I admire you, but I can't bring myself to. Not even by text. Instead, after a moment's hesitation, I type:
I understand you.
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#45. Suze us my oldest, dearest friend, and being with her used to feel like the easiest thing in the world. But now it feels like I'm in a stage play and I've forgotten my lines and she's not about to help me out.
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#46. You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.
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#47. You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.
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#48. When he was EIGHT. Anne, do you know what teenage parties are like? What if they knife each other and have sex on the trampoline?
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#49. Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.
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#50. Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.
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#51. Wow. So you didn't expect it?"
"No. Not at all."
"Were you like, 'Fuck!
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#52. She is the only woman I've ever known who could make a man call.Ever
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#53. I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you.
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#54. 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'.
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#55. We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.
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#56. It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.
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#57. Yes!" I perk up. "Actually, I was wondering, do the mothers have lots of coffee mornings, parties, that kind of thing?" Erica shoots me an odd look. "I meant socialization of the children." "Right." I clear my throat. "The children. Of course.
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#58. If you spend most of your time turned away from people, you get to know what they're doing without having to see it.
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#59. I'm blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.
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#60. You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.
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#61. Even when you think you have lost yourself, love can still find you.
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#62. The idea of Kai and Luke sitting at a table discussing his pecs nearly made me snort out my coconut water.
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#63. Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.
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#64. I feel scalded inside. Like, third-degree burns. But no one can see them. (Fliss talking about her divorce.)
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#65. It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.
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#66. My new rule for life. Don't go into spooky dark woods on your own."
"You're not on your own.
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#67. The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.
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#68. My phone's my life. I can't exist without it. It's a vital organ.
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#69. Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
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#70. She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace ... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.
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#71. I mean, here we are in LA. The home of celebrities. They're the local natural phenomenon. Everyone knows you come to LA to see the celebrities, like you go to Sri Lanka to see the elephants.
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#72. I also know that standing up for yourself can be hard. But you have to do it.
Sam Roxton
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#73. There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
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#75. Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?"
Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.
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#76. AI guess that's what happens when you have no Botox, make-up or fake tan. You have expressions instead.
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#77. 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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#78. When the dog bites, when the bee stings ... I simply remember I have a boyfriend and suddenly things don't seem quite so completely shit.
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#79. But life can't be about holding on to the bad things. It has to be about grabbing on to the good things and letting the bad things go.
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#80. I think, if Demeter had to put her religion down on a form, she'd put Organic.
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#81. It was about how you have to be strong to break free from abuse and not constantly measure yourself against toxic people but stand strong and distinct like a healthy tree. Not some stunted, falling-over, co-dependent victim tree. Or whatever.
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#82. My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!
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#83. I feel like I've been on this massive long, lonely journey, and none of my friends could ever understand it, even Natalie. I think I kind of hated them for that.
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#84. The whole point about T-shirts is you choose them in the morning according to your mood, like crystals, or aromatherapy oils.
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#85. 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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#86. People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.
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#87. I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!
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#89. I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I couldn't have a career and manage the kids' routines and household thing single-handedly. I'd just go crazy.
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#90. Some people lose their nerve for riding or skiing or driving; well, I've lost my nerve for life.
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#91. 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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#92. If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain has to cancel all his plans and get on a plane.
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#93. It's amazing how an otherwise intelligent person can become a credulous fool as soon as you mention the words "organic," "authentic," and "Gweneth Paltrow.
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#94. The atmosphere in the admin department also seemed very false. My suspicions were aroused when two employees spontaneously started singing the Panther Corporation song. I didn't even know there was a Panther Corporation song.
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#95. You may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
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#96. Sometimes I hope I'm building up a stockpile of missing laughs, and when I've recovered, they'll all come exploding out in one gigantic fit that lasts twenty-four hours.
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#97. 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.
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#98. If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.
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#99. Do you respond to every e-mail you get, Becky?" Luke turns, incredulous. "Do you have a fine selection of Viagra substitutes too?
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#100. I know friends should be supportive of each other's life decisions and all that.
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