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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
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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
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Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
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I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. it was supposed to break, I explain after a pause, and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.
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If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in the office, asking them what was going on today and had they heard anything new and what did they think was going to happen. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in an office job.
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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.
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Still, that's the point of love you love someone despite their flaws.
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If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
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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)
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Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, Here! Have them all!
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Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
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I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.
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I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say Sushi! out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, T-bone steak!
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I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.
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And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.
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...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
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You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.
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I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.
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So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.
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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.
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