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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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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
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London
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Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
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The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.
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I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
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Books are educational so you can buy as many as you want. Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace
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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.
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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.
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But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.
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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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she doesn’t really have a sense of humor. I think she’d like to have one—it’s just that she doesn’t quite understand what jokes are for.
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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.
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Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.
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I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby
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You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road... you're practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK?
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Still, that's the point of love you love someone despite their flaws.
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We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare. Scrabble? He sounds surprised. Scrabble's great. Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.
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If you're single, then I'm single? What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?
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Ciao, I say casually, and flick my hair back. Si. Ciao. I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.
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This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels
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You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.
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you can always find something you want.
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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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