Sophie Kinsella quote: "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."

Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

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

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against yo...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best fri...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kins...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to mak...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issu...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very go...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to kn...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

You look... amazing!"
And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black....
SOPHIE KINSELLA

She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindle...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. Th...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I think what I’ve realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the d...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I hurl the glass teapot to the ground.

we both stare at it, stunned.

"it was s...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should s...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Kno...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get int...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groce...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. SOPHIE KINSELLA

To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded l...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I want him."
"I'm sorry?" I peer at her, flicking my mobile open out of habit.
"The man I ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Oh, my God, you smiled! Mr. American Frown actually smiled!"
"Must have been a mistake. I'll sp...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
SOPHIE KINSELLA

It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Y...
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 char...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I often wonder what she's thinking," says Ed, still gazing up at her. "That's quite an intriguing ex...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. H...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace......
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I can see the warmth. He's falling for me.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their o...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the vi...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

L: You want me just to be your... friend?

E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardi...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

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

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be j...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

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

I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I coul...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confin...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I'd laugh, only my stupid lizard brain has disabled the laugh button for now. I'm too frozen up with...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ C...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door...
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 ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor".
Wow. So we're straight to the point. SOPHIE KINSELLA

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess piec...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Toda mi familia se crece con la presión. Es como el lema familiar, o algo así. Con la excepción d...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

It's just, there's something compelling about very beautiful people. Especially strong-jawed men wit...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

These corners are getting a bit bulky." Mum looks consideringly at the catalog. "Maybe we should fol...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried ange...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, j...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

This is me, remember?" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank state...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Family's the most important thing.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
W.P. KINSELLA

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of stea...
W.P. KINSELLA

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria --- anyone who can use those four words in one senten...
W.P. KINSELLA

Harper has hugged the center. What Americans should expect is a centrist Conservative who is quite d...
WARREN KINSELLA

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.
W.P. KINSELLA

It is never too late to seek a better world
NICK KINSELLA

The best lover in the world is the one who brings out the best in me.
NICK KINSELLA

Women are not complicated or confusing. It’s just that most men don’t understand that women just...
NICK KINSELLA

Don't forget. In a years time you could be dead. Don't postpone a life for tomorrow that you can sta...
NICK KINSELLA

Be firm and stand your ground but never get angry
NICK KINSELLA

The secret for keeping a woman interested in you is to give her a wide emotional range to experience...
NICK KINSELLA

You will only ever hurt a woman if you promise her more than you can give. Be honest about your inte...
NICK KINSELLA

Men who are successful with women have something at the centre of their being which isn't dependent ...
NICK KINSELLA

Every time you encounter a difficulty or a problem in anything you do don't get down about it. It is...
NICK KINSELLA

If its true that there is no god and we are alone in this universe then I would think that it is ver...
NICK KINSELLA

You can always have success if you want it badly enough. Remember though, that success like anything...
NICK KINSELLA

There are two categories of people in this world. The first get their feeling of self worth by belit...
NICK KINSELLA

People often say that a very attractive woman is 'out of their league' Let me be clear about this......
NICK KINSELLA

Fundamentally, attraction is nothing but a perspective.
NICK KINSELLA

Happiness must come first! only then can you have the partner of your dreams
NICK KINSELLA

A great man is someone who has made the effort to give great deal of value to the lives of others.
NICK KINSELLA

When a girl asks 'what do you do for a living?’ she is actually asking us who we believe we are. M...
NICK KINSELLA

Don't live as if you are to die tomorrow. That isn't useful. Instead live as if you only had ten yea...
NICK KINSELLA

Wisdom is not a number
NICK KINSELLA

If your life is not to your liking then it is no ones fault but your own. Sorry if that offends you ...
NICK KINSELLA

If you make it a mission of yours to acquire lots attractive female friends that you will keep as ju...
NICK KINSELLA

Knowledge is useless without action. Action requires knowledge but knowledge does not guarantee acti...
NICK KINSELLA

The problem with some people is that they use their religion as a part of their identity rather than...
NICK KINSELLA

With any emotion you wish to avoid negative emotions such as hatred, shame, blame, regret, resentmen...
NICK KINSELLA

Choose from this day forward who you are
NICK KINSELLA

If you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that you had exactly ten years to live, how would you live di...
NICK KINSELLA

Everything you want is outside your comfort zone. If it wasn’t, you would already have it.
NICK KINSELLA

I am friends with someone because they bring out the best in me. In this respect all of my friends a...
NICK KINSELLA

When the (crime) scene is released, we will take a look at the guns and start the tracing process.
BILL KINSELLA

Every circumstance in my life is my fault and my responsability. To accept this as a fact is to take...
NICK KINSELLA

Women are not attracted to men because they are good looking. Women are attracted to men because the...
NICK KINSELLA

The phrase 'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely' only exists to discourage good peopl...
NICK KINSELLA

If you think a woman is so good looking that she must already have a boyfriend' you're probably righ...
NICK KINSELLA

People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they...
NICK KINSELLA

Many people don't realize that there have been over 100 toymakers in the Western New York area.
LYNN KINSELLA

We need to open the exhibit and ask people to help.
LYNN KINSELLA

She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.
W.P. KINSELLA

'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!
SOPHIE TURNER

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.
SOPHIE MARCEAU

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
SOPHIE MCSHERA

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 s...
SOPHIE TUCKER

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.
SOPHIE MASSON

I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they be...
SOPHIE HANNAH

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.
SOPHIE THOMPSON

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.
SOPHIE THOMPSON

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in uns...
SOPHIE ALDRED

Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go ...
SOPHIE WU

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.
SOPHIE TURNER

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, ...
SOPHIE HANNAH

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.
SOPHIE TURNER

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels tha...
SOPHIE HANNAH

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by an...
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

I'm a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do i...
SOPHIE PASCOE

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy ...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the la...
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough!
SOPHIE MCSHERA

Obviously I've had crushes, and I've tried to make things work with people, but it doesn'...
SOPHIE TURNER

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.
SOPHIE MCSHERA

I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a...
SOPHIE MONK

With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories ab...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interes...
SOPHIE MARCEAU

Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I rea...
SOPHIE TURNER

Keep breathing.
SOPHIE TUCKER

I've been rich and Ive been poor -- and believe me, rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER

I'm not cheap, but I am reasonable
SOPHIE TUCKER

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
SOPHIE TUCKER

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good...
SOPHIE TUCKER

When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' w...
SOPHIE TURNER

After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to ...
SOPHIE MONK

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it wa...
SOPHIE MARCEAU

I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBu...
SOPHIE HUNTER

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want...
SOPHIE OKONEDO

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 sh...
SOPHIE TUCKER

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.
SOPHIE TURNER

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
SOPHIE MARCEAU

I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once t...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's ...
SOPHIE PASCOE

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you ...
SOPHIE HANNAH

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don&...
SOPHIE HANNAH

I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.
SOPHIE TURNER

I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the fut...
SOPHIE TURNER

I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds Universi...
SOPHIE HANNAH

On Leonardo DiCaprio: What is he - eleven? thirteen? I could play his nanny.
SOPHIE MARCEAU

You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. B...
SOPHIE JORDAN

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
SOPHIE KERR

I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a littl...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Late...
SOPHIE SCHOLL

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. I...
SOPHIE SCHOLL

When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumpe...
SOPHIE TURNER

Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-...
SOPHIE TURNER

I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

You spend a lot of time studying, and you want to do something with that. Something that's tangi...
SOPHIE HUNTER

The key is that people need to be saving in other ways, using investment vehicles, stocks, bonds, an...
SOPHIE BECKMANN

It's only in the 'fair' range probably because of real estate appreciation and stock market gains. I...
SOPHIE BECKMANN

You want to be doing things that educate them and help them understand their actions have consequenc...
SOPHIE BECKMANN

The tax code is just as complex as last year, if not a bit more so.
SOPHIE BECKMANN

San Diego is ranked below average in every category.
SOPHIE BECKMANN

The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be ...
SOPHIE SCHOLL

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.

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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

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