Top 300 Sophie Kinsella Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.”

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

54. “Life’s too short for minimalism.”

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

87. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

89. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

92. “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

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

99. “Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it’s from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.”

— Sophie Kinsella

100. “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 to say, ‘I’m not going to share that.”

— Sophie Kinsella