Sophie Kinsella Quotes

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.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.

Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.

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

That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

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

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.

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.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

you can always find something you want.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.

Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?

Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message." Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.

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.

He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

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.

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.

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

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on

I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.

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

I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you.

My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!)

It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

If you look good, you feel good!

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

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

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

Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.

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.

You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon

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?

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace