Top 300 Sophie Kinsella Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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.”

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202. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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210. “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.”

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211. “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.”

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212. “I trail away into silence. I’ve just shared details of my condom use with my son’s teacher. I’m not sure how that happened.”

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213. “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.”

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

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

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

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219. “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.”

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

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221. “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.”

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

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223. “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

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

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

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226. “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.”

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

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

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229. “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

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

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

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232. “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.”

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233. “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...”

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234. “Mothers are multi-taskers.”

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

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236. “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

237. “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

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

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

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

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

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242. “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!”

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243. “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.”

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244. “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.”

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

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246. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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