“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.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“No human on God's earth is a nobody.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“L: You want me just to be your... friend?
E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardian angel.
L: What?
E: Do you know what it's like to have someone crash into your life with no warning? When you landed in my office, I was like, Who the fuck is this? But you shook me up. You brought me back to life at a time when I was in limbo. You were just what I needed...
You're just what I need.
L: Well I need you too. So we're even.
E: No, you don't need me. You're doing just fine.
L: Ok. Maybe I don't need you. But... I want you.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“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.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their own good.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them.
(Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“I can see the warmth. He's falling for me.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse.
(Mom - to Lara Lington)”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“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.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“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.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“I often wonder what she's thinking," says Ed, still gazing up at her. "That's quite an intriguing expression she has."
"I often wonder that myself," chimes in Malcolm Gledhill eagerly. "She seems to have such a look of serenity and happiness...Obviously, from what you've said, she has a certain emotional connection with the painter Malory...I often wonder if he was reading her poetry as he painted..."
"What an idiot this man is," says Sadie scathingly in my ear. "It's obvious I what I'm thinking. I'm looking at Stephan and I'm thinking, I want to jump his bones."
"She wanted to jump his bones," I say to Malcolm Gledhill. Ed shoots me a disbelieving look, then bursts into laughter.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do. You lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail... and out you go.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“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.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“Oh, my God, you smiled! Mr. American Frown actually smiled!"
"Must have been a mistake. I'll speak to someone about it. Won't happen again."
"Well, good. Because you could do your face and injury, just smiling like that.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“I want him."
"I'm sorry?" I peer at her, flicking my mobile open out of habit.
"The man I just met. I felt it, right here. The sizzle." She presses her concave stomach. "I want to dance with him.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
“When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Twenties Girl
Sophie Kinsella
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“Yeah, beware the small man... Always beware the small man. He'll fuck you every time. Because they never forget, do they? All that grief they got at school. Over and over, and for the rest of their miserable short-arsed lives, someone's got to pay.”
― John Niven, quote from Kill Your Friends
“There is no dishonor in losing the race,” Don said. “There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn't mean it's not worth telling.”
― Steven dos Santos, quote from The Culling
“Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think”
― Anand Neelakantan, quote from Ajaya: Roll of the Dice
“And behold, there was peace in all the land, insomuch that the Nephites did go into whatsoever part of the land they would, whether among the Nephites or the Lamanites.”
― The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, quote from Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price
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