"sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"
— Sophie Kinsella (The Undomestic Goddess)

"I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore."
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

"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."
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

"For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself."
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

"My life has changed, and I'm changing with it."
— Sophie Kinsella (The Undomestic Goddess)

"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."
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic and Baby)

"Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince.

"What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?"

"That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says "It came out ages ago."

I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?"

"There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly "And guess what happens at the end of book six-"

"Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse "Don't tell her!""
— Sophie Kinsella (Remember Me?)

"In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone. "
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic and Baby)

""Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking...a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.""
— Sophie Kinsella

"All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry."
— Sophie Kinsella (Remember Me?)

"There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive."
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic Takes Manhattan)

"People who want to make a million borrow a million first"
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic Takes Manhattan)

"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."
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic Takes Manhattan)

""'Jennifer Aniston and Her New Man'" I read the words aloud uncertainly. "What new man? Why would she need a new man?"

"Oh yes." Nicole follows my gaze, unconcerned. "You know she split up from Brad Pitt?"

"Jennifer and Brad split?" I stare up at her, aghast. "You can't be serious! They can't have done!"

"He went off with Angelina Jolie. They've got a daughter."

"No!" I wail. "But Jen and Brad were so perfect together! They looked so good and they had that lovely wedding picture and everything...."

"They're divorced now." Nicole shrugs, like it's no big deal.

I can't get over this. Jennifer and Brad divorced. The world is a different place."
— Sophie Kinsella (Remember Me?)

"It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to."
— Sophie Kinsella (Remember Me?)

" "I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories""
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

"A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…"
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

""You look... amazing!"
And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black. The kind of deep, soft black that you fall into. A simple sleeveless dress from Whistles, the highest of Jimmy Choos, a pair of stunning uncut amethyst earrings. And please don't ask how much it all cost, because that's irrelevant. This is investment shopping. The biggest investment of my life.
I haven't eaten anything all day so I'm nice and thin and for once my hair has fallen perfectly into shape. I look... well, I've never looked better in my life.
But of course, looks are only part of the package, aren't they?
-Becky Bloomwood,
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic"
— Sophie Kinsella (The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic)

""sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"
"
— Sophie Kinsella (The Undomestic Goddess)

"If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ..."
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic Takes Manhattan)

""I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby "
— Sophie Kinsella

"It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.

I'm old."
— Sophie Kinsella (Remember Me?)

"`Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?'
'It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.'
"Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.'"
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic Ties the Knot)

"My voice is clotted with unshed tears."
— Sophie Kinsella (Remember Me?)

""You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that we had. Everyone was jealous of us at Cambridge, everyone. We were perfect together."
"We weren't perfect!" He looks at her incredulously. "And I didn't panic---"
"You did! You couldn't cope with the commitment! It frightened you!"
"It did not frighten me!" Luke shouts, exasperated. "It made me realize you weren't the person I wanted to have children with. Or spend the rest of my life with. Ever. And that's why I ended it!""
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic and Baby)

"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 (Twenties Girl: A Novel)

"Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself."
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

"I can see the warmth. He's falling for me."
— Sophie Kinsella (Twenties Girl: A Novel)

"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 (Twenties Girl: A Novel)

"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 (Twenties Girl: A Novel)

"'Yes, contractions can be intense,' Noura continues. 'But your bodies are designed to handle it. And what you must remember is, it's a positive pain. I'm sure you'll both agree?' She looks over at Mum and Janice.
'POSITIVE?' Janice looks up, horrified. 'Ooh, no, dear. Mine was agony. 24 hours in the cruel summer heat. I wouldn't wish it on any of you poor girls.'
'But there are natural methods you can use,' Noura puts in quickly. 'I'm sure you found that rocking and changing position helped with the contractions.
'I wouldn't have said so,' Mum says kindly.
'Or a warm bath?' Noura suggets, smile tightening.
'A bath? Dear, when you're gripped by agony and wanting to die, a bath doesn't really help!'
As I glance around the room I can see that all the girls' faces have frozen. Most of the mens' too."
— Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic and Baby)