To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified.


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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
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hop...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
When the (crime) scene is released, we will take a look at the guns and start the tracing process.
BILL KINSELLA
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
SOPHIE 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
It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
SOPHIE KINSELLA
People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they...
NICK 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
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
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