Quotes from Sophie Kinsella

There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail...

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That's the way life is.

We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn't fit, you can't exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…

It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.

A real relationship is two-way.

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.

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.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.