Quotes from Sophie Kinsella

she is the only woman I've ever known who could make a man call.Ever

Magnus," I say more gently. "Listen. There's no point doing this. Don't marry me just to prove you're not a quitter. Because you will quit, sooner or later. Whatever your intentions are. It'll happen." "Rubbish," he says fiercely. "You will. You don't love me enough for the long haul.

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?

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

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.

But what can you do about mistakes except think, Won't do that again, and move forward?

If you look good, you feel good

Bloody heads and hearts, never match up, do they?

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

Becky! Love! Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. What's wrong? Has labor started? Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.

If we don't stick up for the ones we love, then what are we good for? Professor Russell

I look at the evidence. There's a quote I like. 'When the facts change, I change my mind.'

Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)

I'm your husband. If you're lost, it's up to me to come and find you.

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

You looked like you wanted to jump his bones right there! Jump his bones? Sadie frowns. What do you mean? ...It's like a pajama party. Except you take off your pajamas. Oh that. Her face clicks with recognition. You call it 'jumping his bones'? Sometimes. I shrug. What an odd phrase. We used to call it sex. Oh. I say, discomfited. Well we do too- Or barney-mugging, she adds.

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.

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.

My parents watch too many soap operas, that's their trouble. In fact, they were probably hoping I was pregnant. By my wicked married lover whom they could then murder and bury under the patio.

Have you ever shaken up a compass and see the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle? Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.

You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.

I thought marriage was for ever. I really did. I thought Luke and I would grow old and grey together. Or at least, old. (I'm not intending to go grey, ever...)

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.

It's time for some bigger steps. You need to push yourself, Audrey. You won't know till you try. I believe you can cope with it.