110+ Sophie Kinsella Quotes On Friendship, Happiness And Honeymoon
Sophie Kinsella is a British author who is best known for her Shopaholic series of novels. Her books are humorous and often focus on the themes of romance, relationships, and self-discovery. She has written over twenty novels, including the popular Shopaholic series, as well as standalone novels such as The Undomestic Goddess and I've Got Your Number. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sophie Kinsella on love, friendship, happiness.
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Top 10 Sophie Kinsella Quotes
- Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.
- 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.
- Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.
- I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.
- 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.
Sophie Kinsella Short Quotes
- Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.
- The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.
- People who want to make a million borrow a million first
- Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.
- A real relationship is two-way.
- My voice is clotted with unshed tears.
- Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.
- Life's too short for minimalism.
- you can always find something you want.
- We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.
Sophie Kinsella Quotes About Love
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. — Sophie Kinsella
You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone...it's forever. — Sophie Kinsella
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about? — Sophie Kinsella
Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws. — Sophie Kinsella
The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship. — Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella Quotes About Life
If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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! — Sophie Kinsella
Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life. — Sophie Kinsella
My life has changed, and I'm changing with it. — Sophie Kinsella
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'. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it. — Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella Quotes About Shopaholic
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 — Sophie Kinsella
My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series. — Sophie Kinsella
Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand. — Sophie Kinsella
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) — Sophie Kinsella
They said I was a valued customer. Now they send me hate mail. — Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella Famous Quotes And Sayings
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! — Sophie Kinsella
I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me. — Sophie Kinsella
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... — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next. — Sophie Kinsella
Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I’m sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left). — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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? — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand. — Sophie Kinsella
So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor". Wow. So we're straight to the point. "So", I reply defiantly. "You decided to stay". "Yes, well...", "I thought I might take a closer look at some of the European subsidiaries." He looks up. "How about you?" "Same reason." I nod. "European subsidiaries". — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them. — Sophie Kinsella
Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something? — Sophie Kinsella
If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song? — Sophie Kinsella
Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up. — Sophie Kinsella
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 — Sophie Kinsella
Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that. — Sophie Kinsella
You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did. — Sophie Kinsella
You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next. — Sophie Kinsella
I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law. — Sophie Kinsella
I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway. — Sophie Kinsella
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. — Sophie Kinsella
I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you. — Sophie Kinsella
I can see the warmth. He's falling for me. — Sophie Kinsella
Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself. — Sophie Kinsella
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! — Sophie Kinsella
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella
When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen. — Sophie Kinsella
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. — Sophie Kinsella
You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that. — Sophie Kinsella
Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute. 'You say, "Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind? — Sophie Kinsella
And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
"This is me, remember!" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank statements into the trash and hope a complete stranger would pay off your bills!" This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl. — Sophie Kinsella
I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and Lady Favisham was quite clearly sitting on the right-hand side of the fireplace." Bollocks. They have no idea where Lady Favisham was, they just don't want to admit it in front of Poirot. I'm amazed he gets anywhere. — Sophie Kinsella
If you look good, you feel good! — Sophie Kinsella
We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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) — Sophie Kinsella
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 — Sophie Kinsella
Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops. OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened. — Sophie Kinsella
If it's in the bin, it's public property. — Sophie Kinsella
Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are? — Sophie Kinsella
Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose. — Sophie Kinsella
If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in the office, asking them what was going on today and had they heard anything new and what did they think was going to happen. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in an office job. — Sophie Kinsella
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? — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out. — Sophie Kinsella
Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be. — Sophie Kinsella
Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping! — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me. — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam — Sophie Kinsella
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) — Sophie Kinsella
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. — Sophie Kinsella
My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!) — Sophie Kinsella
I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt. — Sophie Kinsella
But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. — Sophie Kinsella
I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list. — Sophie Kinsella
Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds. — Sophie Kinsella
I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister. — Sophie Kinsella
Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them. (Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster) — Sophie Kinsella
Life Lessons by Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella's work teaches us the importance of self-confidence and believing in ourselves. She also shows us that it's ok to make mistakes and that it's important to take risks and try new things. Lastly, she reminds us that it's important to stay true to ourselves and to never give up on our dreams.
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