Quotes By Author: Sophie Kinsella

“Every time you see someone’s bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, ‘Is this my life?’, remember: It’s not. Everyone’s got a bright-and-shiny, even if it’s hard to find sometimes.”

“We’re all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who’ll never be impressed.”

“The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It’s for their own good.”

“A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.”

“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…”

“They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.”

“But you can’t stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”

“Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you’ve had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.”

“If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be …”

“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’.”

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

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

“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.”

“A real relationship is two-way.”

“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.”