Top 300 Sophie Kinsella Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”

— Sophie Kinsella

52. “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

53. “The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.”

— Sophie Kinsella

54. “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

55. “But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what’s important in life.”

— Sophie Kinsella

56. “It’s funny how life works like a seesaw: Some things go up while others plunge down.”

— Sophie Kinsella

57. “The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.”

— Sophie Kinsella

58. “You get self-obsessed when you’re ill. You can’t see anything around you.”

— Sophie Kinsella

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “So I’m biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I’m pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I’ll get Demeter’s attention. She’ll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I’ll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now.”

— Sophie Kinsella

63. “Why didn’t I buy a new phone earlier? Why don’t I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.”

— Sophie Kinsella

64. “If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be...”

— Sophie Kinsella

65. “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

66. “They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.”

— Sophie Kinsella

67. “The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”

— Sophie Kinsella

68. “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

69. “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

70. “No human on God’s earth is a nobody.”

— Sophie Kinsella

71. “You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.”

— Sophie Kinsella

72. “Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.”

— Sophie Kinsella

73. “I can’t cook. I don’t have the right brain for it, somehow. I can’t walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.”

— Sophie Kinsella

74. “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

75. “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

76. “I’ve never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, ‘OMG, I’ve lost my phone! ’ but how can do that without a bloody phone?”

— Sophie Kinsella

77. “A relationship is a game of chess.”

— Sophie Kinsella

78. “Everyone knows the first rule of business is “Look good during confrontations.” Or if it isn’t, it should be.”

— Sophie Kinsella

79. “Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There’s always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief – that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.”

— Sophie Kinsella

80. “In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.”

— Sophie Kinsella

81. “It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out... My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it’s the best stuff... If rhubarb needs time in the dark maybe you do too.”

— Sophie Kinsella

82. “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

83. “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

84. “It’s OK to be private. It’s OK to say no. It’s OK to say, ‘I’m not going to share that’.”

— Sophie Kinsella

85. “All this time, I wasn’t hungry for success, I was hungry.”

— Sophie Kinsella

86. “I can see the warmth. He’s falling for me.”

— Sophie Kinsella

87. “That girl is going to go far. I have no idea in which direction- but she’ll go far.”

— Sophie Kinsella

88. “So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.”

— Sophie Kinsella

89. “I mean, when I think about it, what’s more important? Clothes – or the miracle of new life?”

— Sophie Kinsella

90. “And maybe now you’ll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.”

— Sophie Kinsella

91. “Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating. And so... not an achievement, my dear. Rather, a privilege.”

— Sophie Kinsella

92. “I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan.”

— Sophie Kinsella

93. “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.”

— Sophie Kinsella

94. “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

95. “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

96. “Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away.”

— Sophie Kinsella

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

100. “Once you’ve started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”

— Sophie Kinsella