Quotes from Sophie Kinsella

Not so fast. Take your time! Taste the food!

I think I've grown out of it. It's a natural process: you gain everything you can from a place and then you move on.

My shoulders hunch even harder. I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as Dandelion seeds - no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

Trish and Eddie are darting glances at each other. They really are the oddest people.

to do. To be honest, I kept expecting someone to catch me out. But I put the ring tone on silent and no one realized I was texting Sam all the way through.43 And, yes

The law doesn't always know what it's doing,' he adds for good measure. 'Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.

I regret a lot of things, like believing that Joe and I would have grandchildren together one day. But here's the truth: I don't want to feel it. I'm tired of feeling it. I need my outer protective layers to click shut, quickly.

Just something I rustled up earlier." I wink at him. "As we Cordon Bleu chefs do." Nathaniel carves the chicken with an

Alicia," he says abruptly, "that's Maggie Stevens coming in. Could you—" "Absolutely," she says, trained like a racehorse, and starts to move smoothly toward the door. "And Alicia—" adds Luke, and she quickly turns back. "I want to know exactly who fucked up on those figures.

If you listened to every pang, you wouldn't get anywhere in life

My mind is helter-skeltering.

We're in one of the bigger conference rooms and there must be about a hundred chairs arranged in rows, facing a podium and a large screen. I open my notebook, write "Brandon Communications" at the top of the page, and start doodling swirly flowers down the side. Beside me, Elly's dialing her telephone horoscope on her mobile phone. I take a sip of champagne, lean back, and prepare to relax. There's no point listening at press conferences.

Whatever's gone before, life's too short not to make amends. Life's too short to bear a grudge. On

However well we got to know each other, there was always a magic. A mystery. We could lie in bed looking silently at each other, not needing to speak. Joe's eyes were never boring. He was never boring.

Of course! I'm far more used to working with a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Nimbus 2000." Trish peers at me in surprise. "Isn't that the broomstick out of Harry Potter?" Damn. I knew I'd heard it somewhere. "Yes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is," I say at last, my face flaming. "And also a well-known ironing board. In fact, I think the broomstick was named Ã¢â'¬Â¦ er Ã¢â'¬Â¦ after the ironing board.

Hello, Philip?" I say into the receiver—then immediately I wish I'd said something thrusting and impressive, like a simple "Yep.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing.

I'm suddenly seeing the other side of me; the side I thought had disappeared forever. All this time, all my stuff was here. Suddenly I have a memory of Eric's words, that first time I asked him about Jon. 'You'd trust Jon with your life.' Maybe that's what I did. Trusted him with my life.

Maybe this is karma.

The great thing about legal training is it really teaches you to lie.

Just because he lives in Harpenden and thinks anyone who doesn't live in lovely leafy suburbia is mad.

They just go on and on. The most extraordinary one is this one I found on a gossip site: Becky "drank cocktails" before row, bartender reports I mean, for God's sake. What does that have to do with anything? They might as well write LOIS AND SAGE VISITED BATHROOM ON DAY OF ROW. They probably will write that.

For him life has to go the certain way, otherwise he's not interested.

What I've learned since being out in the dating field is: A lot of men are really boring. Or else they're not boring, they're super-fun and exciting, but they have four other secret girlfriends they never mentioned....