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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.

Sophie Kinsella

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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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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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You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.
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Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.
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That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.
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If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
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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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It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.
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I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.
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Still, that's the point of love you love someone despite their flaws.
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There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.
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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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Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
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I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby
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I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.
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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)
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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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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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Everyone knows the first rule of business is Look good during confrontations. Or if it isn't, it should be.
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...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
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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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