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

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.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth called time.

There is more light than darkness, there has always been.

Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.