Top 300 Sophie Kinsella Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “But what can you do about mistakes except think, Won’t do that again, and move forward?”

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

203. “I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It’s just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily “I’m going to be a millionaire’s wife! I’m going to be a millionaire’s wife!” And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.”

— Sophie Kinsella

204. “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

205. “Yes, I made the mistake of falling in love with a man without any feelings. Now it all makes sense.”

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

207. “But nothing changes if nothing changes. I saw that slogan on a T-shirt the other day, and it really resonated. I’ve changed. My horizons have shifted, And if I want to keep growing and changing, I need to challenge myself.”

— Sophie Kinsella

208. “God, real people are so disappointing. I’m sure she would have done it better in the box-set version.”

— Sophie Kinsella

209. “You need some accessories. Some businesswoman-type accessories.” “Like what? A Filofax?”

— Sophie Kinsella

210. “Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me.”

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Sophie Kinsella

212. “I feel like I’ve been on this massive long, lonely journey, and none of my friends could ever understand it, even Natalie. I think I kind of hated them for that.”

— Sophie Kinsella

213. “If love is easy, you’re not doing it right.”

— Sophie Kinsella

214. “We’re just looking and looking at each other. And I can feel something new between us, something even more intimate than anything we’ve done. Eye to eye. It’s the most powerful connection in the world.”

— Sophie Kinsella

215. “It’s amazing how an otherwise intelligent person can become a credulous fool as soon as you mention the words “organic,” “authentic,” and “Gweneth Paltrow.”

— Sophie Kinsella

216. “I know friends should be supportive of each other’s life decisions and all that.”

— Sophie Kinsella

217. “The parents are in charge of all the stuff like technology in the house and time on screens and hours on social media, but then their computer goes wrong and they’re like a baby, going, “What happened to my document?” “I can’t get Facebook.” “How do I load a picture? Double-click what? What does that mean?” And we have to sort it out for them.”

— Sophie Kinsella

218. “Do you respond to every e-mail you get, Becky?” Luke turns, incredulous. “Do you have a fine selection of Viagra substitutes too?”

— Sophie Kinsella

219. “But sometimes it’s hard to bear his disappointment at life as well as my own.”

— Sophie Kinsella

220. “She has amazing eyebrows. Some people are just granted amazing eyebrows, and she’s one of them.”

— Sophie Kinsella

221. “Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want.” Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace.”

— Sophie Kinsella

222. “I think I’ve finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone’s bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do.”

— Sophie Kinsella

223. “Other people’s eyes are limitless and that’s what scares me.”

— Sophie Kinsella

224. “I can’t move. I’m paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop’s fable who couldn’t choose between the bales of hay. They’ll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.”

— Sophie Kinsella

225. “And then Jo met Professor Bhaer, so we had to watch that bit. And then Beth died. So I guess the March sisters were on their own jagged graph too.”

— Sophie Kinsella

226. “Mothers are multi-taskers.”

— Sophie Kinsella

227. “Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating.”

— Sophie Kinsella

228. “Maybe I could... secretly fix a trailer onto the car when Luke ins’t looking? Ot maybe I could wear all my clothes, on top of each other, and say I’m feeling a bit chilly...”

— Sophie Kinsella

229. “Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.”

— Sophie Kinsella

230. “I think your smile looks like an orange segment.”

— Sophie Kinsella

231. “I learned that failing doesn’t mean you are a failure; it just means you’re a human being.”

— Sophie Kinsella

232. “They talk about “body language,” as if we all speak it the same. But everyone has their own dialect. For me right now, for example, swiveling my body right away and staring rigidly at the corner means, “I like you.” Because I didn’t run away and shut myself in the bathroom. I just hope he realizes that.”

— Sophie Kinsella

233. “And the point is, it’s something to aspire to, something to hope for. One day my life will match my Instagram posts. One day!”

— Sophie Kinsella

234. “Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don’t know?”

— Sophie Kinsella

235. “The whole point about T-shirts is you choose them in the morning according to your mood, like crystals, or aromatherapy oils.”

— Sophie Kinsella

236. “OK, I have to make sure we’re on the same page here. Because I might mean one thing and she might mean, intending to start a Cordon Bleu course when I get back to England.”

— Sophie Kinsella

237. “He leans forward, and this time there’s no hesitation. His mouth lands on mine, sweet and firm. He’s kissing me. Jack.”

— Sophie Kinsella

238. “The trouble is, I’m sorry doesn’t power anything. It drags you down.”

— Sophie Kinsella

239. “If it’s in the bin, it’s public property.”

— Sophie Kinsella

240. “The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it’s gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.”

— Sophie Kinsella

241. “She’s not talking to me. She’s talking to the Imaginary Daily Mail Judge, who constantly watches her life and gives it marks out of ten.”

— Sophie Kinsella

242. “Sometimes I worry my ideas might dry up’, he says, an odd tone to his voice. ‘I’m not sure who I’d be without them. Sometimes I think I’m really just an empty vessel floating about, downloading ideas and not much else.”

— Sophie Kinsella

243. “How many divorces are caused by the word nothing? I think this would be a very interesting statistic.”

— Sophie Kinsella

244. “You have no idea how many people there are in the world until you start getting freaked out by them.”

— Sophie Kinsella

245. “Well, I don’t howl. Not quite. But I feel like howling.”

— Sophie Kinsella

246. “Sometimes I hope I’m building up a stockpile of missing laughs, and when I’ve recovered, they’ll all come exploding out in one gigantic fit that lasts twenty-four hours.”

— Sophie Kinsella

247. “AI guess that’s what happens when you have no Botox, make-up or fake tan. You have expressions instead.”

— Sophie Kinsella

248. “Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?” says Alex abruptly. “Well, that’s my brain. It’s all over the place.”

— Sophie Kinsella

249. “No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.”

— Sophie Kinsella

250. “Everyone should keep a dream journal, did you know that?”

— Sophie Kinsella