Top 300 Sophie Kinsella Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

103. “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

104. “I’m a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.”

— Sophie Kinsella

105. “Oh, please. If she’s going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.”

— Sophie Kinsella

106. “Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?”

— Sophie Kinsella

107. “Every instinct in me wants to text someone OMG, I’ve lost my phone! but how can I do that without a bloody phone?”

— Sophie Kinsella

108. “I change my mind so much, I’m better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.”

— Sophie Kinsella

109. “Wow. I’ve never been a VIP before. I’ve never even been a IP.”

— Sophie Kinsella

110. “I’m lying. I don’t just need someone like you. I need you.”

— Sophie Kinsella

111. “The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny – and hope everyone else agrees.”

— Sophie Kinsella

112. “The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.”

— Sophie Kinsella

113. “People who want to make a million borrow a million first.”

— Sophie Kinsella

114. “Most people underestimate eyes. They’re infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people’s eyes are limitless and that’s what scares me.”

— Sophie Kinsella

115. “I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.”

— Sophie Kinsella

116. “When I’m on a break from writing, I’ll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.”

— Sophie Kinsella

117. “Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won’t have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.”

— Sophie Kinsella

118. “I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn’t want to do it anymore.”

— Sophie Kinsella

119. “Bloody heads and hearts, never match up, do they?”

— Sophie Kinsella

120. “Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can’t keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.”

— Sophie Kinsella

121. “I’m an impulse buyer. I don’t really go out with a list.”

— Sophie Kinsella

122. “In honor of my goddaughter’s christening, I will perform ‘The Real Slim Shady,’ by Eminem,” he says confidently.”

— Sophie Kinsella

123. “I chose to publish the first ‘Shopaholic’ book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.”

— Sophie Kinsella

124. “I’d probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren’t for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I’m much happier writing novels!”

— Sophie Kinsella

125. “Maybe my identity’s been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!”

— Sophie Kinsella

126. “Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.”

— Sophie Kinsella

127. “My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.”

— Sophie Kinsella

128. “I look along the endless line, squinting in the sunshine. I’m twenty-nine years old. I can go anywhere. Do anything. Be anyone I like. “There’s no rush,” I say at last, and reach up to kiss him again.”

— Sophie Kinsella

129. “I’m your husband. If you’re lost, it’s up to me to come and find you.”

— Sophie Kinsella

130. “I adore all Agatha Christie’s books and turn to them whenever I’m ill or need cheering up.”

— Sophie Kinsella

131. “He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam.”

— Sophie Kinsella

132. “A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.”

— Sophie Kinsella

133. “I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.”

— Sophie Kinsella

134. “There’s genuine pain in Eric’s eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can’t stay with people because of guilt.”

— Sophie Kinsella

135. “She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.”

— Sophie Kinsella

136. “Living in London is like living in a movie set, from the Dickensian backstreets to the glinting tower blocks to the secret garden squares. You can be anyone you want to be.”

— Sophie Kinsella

137. “Which is just grief, I guess. I’ve decided that grief is like a newborn baby. It knocks you for six. It takes over your brain with its incessant cry. It stops you sleeping or eating or functioning, and everyone says, “Hang in there, it gets easier.” What they don’t say is, “Two years on, you’ll think it’s got easier, but then, out of the blue, you’ll hear a certain tune in the supermarket and start sobbing.”

— Sophie Kinsella

138. “We’re all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who’ll never be impressed.”

— Sophie Kinsella

139. “We’ll always have jazz.”

— Sophie Kinsella

140. “Sometimes, when I can’t get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I’d invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.”

— Sophie Kinsella

141. “This is the trouble with meeting people in real life: They don’t come with profiles attached.”

— Sophie Kinsella

142. “But, Audrey, that’s what life is. We’re all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That’s life.”

— Sophie Kinsella

143. “I can’t believe how much damage has been done, just from teenage loves meeting again. People should never come into contact with their first loves, I decide. There should be some official form of quarantine. The rule should be: you break up with your teenage lover and that’s it. One of you has to emigrate.”

— Sophie Kinsella

144. “A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.”

— Sophie Kinsella

145. “It was about how you have to be strong to break free from abuse and not constantly measure yourself against toxic people but stand strong and distinct like a healthy tree. Not some stunted, falling-over, co-dependent victim tree. Or whatever.”

— Sophie Kinsella

146. “Why can’t parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?”

— Sophie Kinsella

147. “You keep saying ‘I’m fine’ to people when you’re not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: ‘Why aren’t I fine?”

— Sophie Kinsella

148. “My phone’s my life. I can’t exist without it. It’s a vital organ.”

— Sophie Kinsella

149. “Our whole family thrives under pressure. It’s like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.”

— Sophie Kinsella

150. “But you can’t stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”

— Sophie Kinsella