I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away.


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It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky w...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.
SOPHIE KINSELLA
No human on God's earth is a nobody.
SOPHIE KINSELLA
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hop...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Watching and learning from Mama and the other women in my family gave me a deep love for home and he...
SOPHIE HUDSON
It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hand...
SOPHIE JORDAN
Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can't give him up. H...
SOPHIE JORDAN
We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me...
SOPHIE JORDAN
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Co-signing a car loan may be okay if you think your child is trustworthy and that's the only way the...
SOPHIE BECKMANN
Smoking is hardest to give up because it's legal. I smoke because I'm addicted - nicotine should be ...
SOPHIE ANDERTON
Whether this is true of Kate I don't know. The drugs were the most important thing to me.
SOPHIE ANDERTON
I had a lot of friends that were extremely hedonistic, extremely debauched, swapping partners etc. S...
SOPHIE ANDERTON
Drugs are so accessible within the industry, and it is very difficult to steer completely clear of t...
SOPHIE ANDERTON
I'll miss my AA meetings
SOPHIE ANDERTON
It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Anger was better than weeping.
SOPHIE PAGE
Repentance is accepted remorse.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE
The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
She was attempting to flirt with him, in hopes he’d put in a good word for her with Captain Alvare...
SOPHIE DAVIS
I am a big fan of cosy. I get very excited by a roaring fire and even a perfectly made cup of tea. A...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be j...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I ad...
SOPHIE JORDAN
First and foremost, it's paramount for young child to learn how to swim, and the best place for ...
SOPHIE PASCOE
What I am interested in is the present time.
SOPHIE MARCEAU
I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!
SOPHIE ALDRED
People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I&...
SOPHIE MONK
Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, totally passive aggr...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You d...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
If I was really a bitch I’d make your life a living hell. Instead, I’ll just stand by and watch ...
SOPHIE MONROE
I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the ...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN
My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.
SOPHIE KINSELLA
We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."

"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's g...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE
I can't remember a time in my life where I haven't been aware of discrimination against women and th...
SOPHIE BRION
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE
Dans les jours d'après nous distribuerons tes soixante-dix-sept peluches, une par une ou deux par d...
SOPHIE DAULL
I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down int...
SOPHIE JORDAN
I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea ...
SOPHIE OKONEDO
I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bu...
SOPHIE TURNER
Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!
SOPHIE TURNER
I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I coul...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
When you look at cells that don't yet have a specific function – aren't differentiated, compared t...
SOPHIE LELIèVRE
My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burt...
SOPHIE TURNER