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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

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
Enough
Stupid
Believe
Question
Never
Answers
Sided
Love
Waiting
Hoping
Life
Girl
Believing
Ever
Affair
Live
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Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.
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