Sophie Kinsella
When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - SamCollection: Girl
Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!Collection: Games
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.Collection: Mother
My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.Collection: Real
A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.Collection: Divorce
He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam.Collection: Down And
Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going onCollection: Insecure
What are they waiting to see?" Sam follows my gaze and I shrug. "Who knows? You could always do a dance, or tell a joke, or... kiss the bride?" "Not the bride," he wraps his arms around me, and gradually pulls me close. Our noses are practically touching. I can see right into his eyes. I can feel the warmth of his skin. "you." Me. "The girl who stole my phone." His lips brush across the corner of my mouth. "The thief." "It was in a bin." "Still stealing." "No it isn't-," I begin. But now his mouth is firmly on mine, and I can't speak at all. And suddenly, life is good.Collection: Girl
It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?Collection: Saws
I mean, when I think about it, what's more important? Clothes - or the miracle of new life?Collection: Mean
Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.Collection: Opportunity
I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.Collection: Glasses
She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.Collection: Beautiful
You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke BrandonCollection: Hair
I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly possible. Becky talking about cutting back with her parents.Collection: Coffee
But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.Collection: People
Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.Collection: Sorry
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?Collection: Friends Forever
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.Collection: Men
The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.Collection: Girl
Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.Collection: Revenge
We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.Collection: Confused
Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail.Collection: Funny Life
Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?Collection: Mean
No human on God's earth is a nobody.Collection: Earth
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.Collection: Goes On
That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.Collection: Love You
It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.Collection: Girl
You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that we had. Everyone was jealous of us at Cambridge, everyone. We were perfect together." We weren't perfect!" He looks at her incredulously. "And I didn't panic---" You did! You couldn't cope with the commitment! It frightened you!" It did not frighten me!" Luke shouts, exasperated. "It made me realize you weren't the person I wanted to have children with. Or spend the rest of my life with. Ever. And that's why I ended it!Collection: Children
Emma, your granddad’s on the line,” says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. “Something about the night bus and he’ll never trust you again?Collection: Night
You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom." "Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?" "I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her!Collection: Writing
Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.Collection: Love You
I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.Collection: Running
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!Collection: Crazy
This is what's so annoying about going out with Luke. You can't get away with anything.Collection: Going Out
Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight MarketplaceCollection: Educational
If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?Collection: Song
You're working for me cut out the attitude.Collection: Attitude
I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister.Collection: Thinking
Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.Collection: Advice
Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.Collection: People
There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.Collection: Pain
You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.Collection: Turns
... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.Collection: Cells
Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy WyattCollection: Mean
Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.Collection: Crush
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.Collection: Love
Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to face him, I don't make a sound. I don't need to. We're still talking. Every touch he makes, every imprint of his skin is like another word, another thought, a continuation of our conversation. And we're not done yet. Not yet.Collection: Hands
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.Collection: Home