Sophie Kinsella Quotes

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

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.

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

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

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.

Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

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

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

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

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

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.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I still believe it was.

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.

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

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone...it's forever.

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

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.

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

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.