Sophie Kinsella Quotes

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

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

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.

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.

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!

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

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.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.

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

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.

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

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.

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

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

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

You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone...it's forever.

A real relationship is two-way.

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

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

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

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

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

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

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.

she doesn’t really have a sense of humor. I think she’d like to have one—it’s just that she doesn’t quite understand what jokes are for.

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.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

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?

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

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.

My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough.

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

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.

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

And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.