Sophie Kinsella Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Floating, Pieces

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Twenties Girl”, p.11, Random House

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

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  Motivational, Ends

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• you can always find something you want.

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  Want

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.51, Random House

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Jokes

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

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  Moving, World, Shopaholic

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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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  Thinking, People, Important

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.250, Random House

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

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  Fans, Laptops, Great Fans

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• I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

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  Writing, Mean, Issues

  "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent - and also ditzy and klutzy'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2012.

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• 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'.

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  Mother, Wife, Personality

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• A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn't fit, you can't exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags...

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  Truth, Love You, Men

  "Confessions of a Shopaholic". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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

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  Want You Back, Sky, Wish

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• Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?

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  Earth

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• 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.

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  Italian, Hair, Might

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• I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper’s come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don’t know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.

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  Thinking, Snow, Secret

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Taken, Journey, Youth

  Sophie Kinsella (2013). “Wedding Night”, p.7, Random House

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

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  Cheer, Book, Needs

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

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  Fun, Writing, Financial

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• Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

  "Big ideas". Interview With Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

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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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  Brother, Pressure, Nervous

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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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  Heart, Tears, Waste

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• 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)

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  Get Better, Needs, World

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• Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!

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  Book, Blood, Nurse

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• You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that we had. Everyone was jealous of us at Cambridge, everyone. We were perfect together." We weren't perfect!" He looks at her incredulously. "And I didn't panic---" You did! You couldn't cope with the commitment! It frightened you!" It did not frighten me!" Luke shouts, exasperated. "It made me realize you weren't the person I wanted to have children with. Or spend the rest of my life with. Ever. And that's why I ended it!

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  Children, Jealous, Commitment

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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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  Girl, Dark, Hair

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• 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.

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  Love You, Flirting, World Love

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)”, p.315, Random House

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