Top 300 Sophie Kinsella Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.”

— Sophie Kinsella

152. “If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.”

— Sophie Kinsella

153. “I’ve never written a children’s book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, ‘Children’s books?’ Maybe it’s something about my face.”

— Sophie Kinsella

154. “This is what’s so annoying about going out with Luke. You can’t get away with anything.”

— Sophie Kinsella

155. “I’ve come to think of my lizard brain as basically a version of Felix. It’s totally random and makes no sense and you can’t let it run your life. If we let Felix run our lives, we’d all wear superhero costumes all day long and eat nothing but ice-cream. But if you try to fight Felix, all you get is wails and screams and tantrums, and it all gets more and more stressy. So the thing is to listen to him with half an ear and nod your head and then ignore him and do what you want to do. Same with the lizard brain.”

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

157. “But I’m sick of this bloody jagged graph. You know, two steps up, one step down. It’s so painful. It’s so slow. It’s like this endless game of snakes and ladders.” And Mum just looked at me as if she wanted to laugh or maybe cry, and said, “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

158. “In fact, her whole demeanor is calmer. It’s creepy. It’s like she’s had Botox of the soul.”

— Sophie Kinsella

159. “Is your life ruined? Is it such a disaster for people to know the truth about you?”

— Sophie Kinsella

160. “Even when you think you have lost yourself, love can still find you.”

— Sophie Kinsella

161. “Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.”

— Sophie Kinsella

162. “Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?”

— Sophie Kinsella

163. “Commuting in London is basically warfare. It’s a constant campaign of claiming territory; inching forward; never relaxing for a moment. Because if you do, someone will step past you. Or step on you.”

— Sophie Kinsella

164. “You’re so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you’re buying a nursery down the road... you’re practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK?”

— Sophie Kinsella

165. “Every time you see someone’s bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too.”

— Sophie Kinsella

166. “You sound like Darth Vader,” I say bluntly. Elinor doesn’t even flinch. “So be it,” she says, and sips her water. That is totally a Darth Vader thing to say. Next she’ll be ordering the destruction of a thousand innocent Jedi younglings.”

— Sophie Kinsella

167. “Love is all that counts in this crazy, mixed-up world...”

— Sophie Kinsella

168. “The more you engage with the outside world, the more you’ll be able to turn down the volume on those worries. You’ll see that they’re unfounded. You’ll see that the world is a very busy and varied place and most people have the attention span of a gnat. They’ve already forgotten what happened. They don’t think about it. There will have been five more sensations since your incident.”

— Sophie Kinsella

169. “Because the thing about letting people into your heart is, you can just push them out again. Easy.”

— Sophie Kinsella

170. “For God’s sake. In movies, they fix the note to a dog’s collar and it trots off obediently, no nonsense.”

— Sophie Kinsella

171. “See how I stopped mid-sentence? I can do it too. When I don’t necessarily want to reveal the exact thought I’m having.”

— Sophie Kinsella

172. “You can’t even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.”

— Sophie Kinsella

173. “Because it’s human nature to hope for impossible things.”

— Sophie Kinsella

174. “Oh, this shouldn’t be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you’ve met in the gym should never meet you in real life.”

— Sophie Kinsella

175. “Family bloody first.”

— Sophie Kinsella

176. “Every time you see someone’s bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, ‘Is this my life?’, remember: It’s not. Everyone’s got a bright-and-shiny, even if it’s hard to find sometimes.”

— Sophie Kinsella

177. “I mean, here we are in LA. The home of celebrities. They’re the local natural phenomenon. Everyone knows you come to LA to see the celebrities, like you go to Sri Lanka to see the elephants.”

— Sophie Kinsella

178. “Linus might come over. He might not. Either way is fine. Either way, his decision is about himself, not about you. You are not responsible for his feelings.”

— Sophie Kinsella

179. “But that’s what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It’s called natural selection.”

— Sophie Kinsella

180. “People change. Life changes. It’s the way of the world. Maybe it’s meant to be.”

— Sophie Kinsella

181. “You can’t go back in time and do life a different way.”

— Sophie Kinsella

182. “And the truth is, the country is very cool. It’s absolutely the new town.”

— Sophie Kinsella

183. “Everyone knows, the point of an interview is not to demonstrate who you are, but to pretend to be whatever sort of person they want for the job.”

— Sophie Kinsella

184. “You shouldn’t go into a marriage feeling inferior in any way.”

— Sophie Kinsella

185. “People drive by in their colorful convertibles with the roof down, looking all relaxed and friendly, as if you might stroll up to them while they’re pausing at the light and start a conversation. It’s the opposite of Britain, where everyone’s in their own self-contained metal box, swearing at the rain.”

— Sophie Kinsella

186. “But you’re also fragile. Imagine a mended china plate which hasn’t quite set.”

— Sophie Kinsella

187. “To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.”

— Sophie Kinsella

188. “It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?”

— Sophie Kinsella

189. “They maintain this guilty, defiant refusal to engage: I know you’re out there; I know it’s awful and I’m safe inside, but I suffered too, so let me just read my Kindle without bloody guilt-tripping me, OK?”

— Sophie Kinsella

190. “He’s lithe and tanned and taut. But to my eye he’s lost something. He has a synthetic quality, like orange soda instead of freshly squeezed juice. It’s orangey and bubbly and it quenches your thirst, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste. And it’s not good for you.”

— Sophie Kinsella

191. “But I’ve had a lot of time to think about this, and if you ask me, most people underestimate eyes. For a start they’re powerful. They have range. You focus on someone thirty metres away, through a whole bunch of people, and they know you’re looking at them. What other bit of human anatomy can do that?”

— Sophie Kinsella

192. “This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.”

— Sophie Kinsella

193. “I think what I’ve realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn’t matter if you slip down. As long as you’re kind of heading more or less upwards. That’s all you can hope for. More or less upwards.”

— Sophie Kinsella

194. “Except that stopping midsentence is the worst thing people can do. It’s like, totally passive-aggressive, because you can’t take issue with anything they’ve said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say. Which then they deny.”

— Sophie Kinsella

195. “I had a choice: Follow my heart or don’t break his. I think in the end I broke a bit of both our hearts.”

— Sophie Kinsella

196. “The other person always has a point, Listen to each other, and you’ll hear it.”

— Sophie Kinsella

197. “But what can you do about mistakes except think, Won’t do that again, and move forward?”

— Sophie Kinsella

198. “When they expect you to give up, that’s when you should put your foot down and double speed.”

— Sophie Kinsella

199. “You won’t let me buy any clothes. Now you won’t let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I’m going to go crazy!”

— Sophie Kinsella

200. “My voice is clotted with unshed tears.”

— Sophie Kinsella