“Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“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 Brandon”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“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!”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“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.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“There are some things I don't understand about Jess and never will. No wedding dress. No flowers. No photo album. No champagne. The only thing she got out of her wedding was a husband. (I mean, obviously the husband is the main point when you get married. Absolutely. That goes without saying. But still, not even a new pair of shoes?)”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“You'd never get tired of a pony. It's a classic. It's, like, the Chanel jacket of toys.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“You’re perfect,’ he says almost fiercely. ‘You don’t need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe.
And if it’s me that’s made you feel you should do this … then there’s something wrong with me.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“But, come on, even the waiting list for that new Prada bag was only a year. No school can be more exclusive than a limited-edition Prada bag, surely?”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“Why did he have to choose tonight to turn into the perfect husband?”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“I can't help giving her the Mummy Once-Over myself, and she's one of those mothers who wears Crocs over nubbly homemade socks. (Why would you do that? Why?)”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“I wonder if Luke would take a hit of tomato ketchup for me. I might ask him later. Just casually.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“Spoiled?" Mum cuts her off with a laugh. "Nonsense! There's nothing wrong with Minnie, is there, my precious? She knows her own mind!" She strokes Minnie's hair fondly, then looks up again. "Becky, love, you were exactly the same at her age. Exactly the same.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“Love. This is a lorry, not a Ferrari.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“In honor of my goddaughter’s christening, I will perform ‘The Real Slim Shady,’ by Eminem,” he says confidently.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“Trust Jess to get engaged all discreetly and not say a word. I'd have run straight in, saying, "Guess what? Look at my pebble ring!”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“It'll be George Michael all over again," Dad mutters darkly to Mum, and I give a sharp intake of breath. That is AGAINST our family code. No one was supposed to mention George Michael ever again. We even turn off "Carless Whisper" whenever it comes on.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“I've taken over the guest room wardrobe too- plus, I've arranged all my shoes on the bookshelves on the landing. (I put the books in boxes. No one ever read them. anyway.)”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“A mother in J Brand skinny jeans with an impeccably dressed daughter walks past, giving me the Mummy Once-over, and I flinch. Since I had Minnie, I’ve learned that the Mummy Once-over is even more savage than the Manhattan Once-over. In the Mummy Once-over, they don’t just assess and price your clothes to the nearest penny in one sweeping glance. Oh no. They also take in your child’s clothes, pram brand, nappy bag, snack choice and whether your child is smiling, snotty or screaming. Which I know is a lot to take in, in a one-second glance, but believe me, mothers are multi-taskers.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“- Wir haben eine Verabredung getroffen. Luke kauft sich kein Auto, und ich kaufe mir keine neuen Sachen. Jedenfalls nicht bis Oktober.
- Aber Bex! - Suze sieht richtig besorgt aus. - Ist das für dich nicht ungesund? Ich meine, ist es nicht ungesund, wenn man einfach so auf Totalentzug gesetzt wird? Ich hab das mal im Fernsehen gesehen. Die Leute fangen an zu zittern und kriegen Blackouts. Ist dir auch schon zitterig?
Oh, mein Gott. Ich habe noch nie daran gedacht, dass ich meine Gesundheit gefährden könnte, wenn ich das Shoppen aufgebe. Sollte ich lieber mal zum Arzt?”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
“-Hören Sie genau zu, ich werde es nur einmal sagen. - Mit Grabestimme flüstere ich ins Telefon. - Ich organisiere eine Überraschungsparty für Lukes Geburtstag. Die Sache ist streng geheim, und Sie sind der siebte Mensch auf der Welt, der davon erfährt.
Fast möchte ich hinzufügen: `Und jetzt muss ich Sie erschießen.´”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Mini Shopaholic
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“Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Drood
“One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.”
― Graham Greene, quote from Travels With My Aunt
“He’ll never be conquered, that man, and you know why? We all back him up – the little fellows like you and me. Oh yes, to hear the big fellows talk, they ‘re fighting for their beliefs and so on, but if you look into it, you find they’re not that silly: they do want to make a profit on the deal. So you and I back them up! COOK”
― Bertolt Brecht, quote from Mother Courage and Her Children
“He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the Conriyan encampment and counted fires like an idiot child. „Always number your foemen,“ his father had once told him, „by the glitter of their fires.“ Sometimes he gazed at the stars and wondered if they too were his enemies.”
― R. Scott Bakker, quote from The Warrior Prophet
“started to sit up, but his hand snaked around my stomach and pulled me back to him. “You should try to get some more sleep,” he said. “I can’t,” I said. “Not until this is over.” He sat up beside me, taking my hand in his and quickly kissing the back of it before suggesting, “Run?” The man knows me. I glanced out the small window. The sun was yet to appear on the horizon and rain fell lightly, but the wind had eased for now. I beamed. “Coffee first.” He laughed as he stood up and tossed me a T-shirt. “Coffee first.” And it turns out, even when the world might be about to end, a girl can still swoon.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
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