The Burnout Quotes

“You’re never failing, you’re learning. Learning how to manage the sea and how to manage yourself. Everything you did today, right or wrong, was experience. Experience! Can’t beat it. And you’ll learn from it, just you wait.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Now,” adds Terry knowledgeably, “you want to know why you wiped out?” “Yes,” I say, desperate to hear his answer. “Tell me. Why did I wipe out?” “Because you tried,” says Terry simply. “You tried, my dear. And that puts you above most people.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“The thing you must remember is to enjoy the ride.” He looks at me with a sharp blue gaze, and just for an instant I’m looking at the old Terry. “Enjoy every moment. Because if you don’t, what’s the point? The ride is it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“The ride is it!”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“You do not need an unkind man in your life right now. Or ever.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Do you have an appointment?' She glances at her screen. 'No.' Somehow I force myself to leave it at that. This is what you have to do in life: just say 'No,' without explaining further. I'm not saying I feel comfortable doing that, but I've seen it on Instagram. It's what successful people do.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“He couldn’t love me—I’m convinced of this to my bones. He couldn’t share his anguish, his loss, or anything of his heart. He closed himself off—and he’s still closed off, because his heart is reserved for someone else.

So I closed myself off too—because something I’ve learned these last few weeks is self-preservation. I couldn’t let myself get hurt. Not now, not after everything that’s happened. I’ve been hurt enough by life; I’m still mending.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Here’s the problem. Here’s the issue. I’m falling in love with this man. Properly, hopelessly in love. And I need to get away, while I still have a chance of un-falling in love.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Zoose! I started off at a sprint, giving it my all, thinking I was on a solid path toward an exciting horizon. But the path isn’t solid anymore. It’s mud. Deep, gloopy mud. I”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“but I guess I’ve been avoiding her. I haven’t had “the energy to be ‘on’ and cheerful; nor do I want to dissolve into sobs. I guess this is how people slowly turn into recluses.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“No one remembers the wipe-outs. They don’t! People remember the triumphs! They’ll remember all the times you caught that wave and you rode it into shore.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Who the hell does he think he is that he can lash out at people? Do the normal rules not apply to him?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“The ride is it.’ ” “ ‘The ride is it.’ ”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“but if I can’t trust him to go for coffee with her, then that says something about me.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“I’ll bug you about this. I won’t let it go. Because that’s what you do when you care about someone.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Do I want to flirt back? How do I flirt back? How does that go again? I try to reach inside myself for my flirting moves. But I’ve lost it. I feel empty inside. I don’t have a line.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“I don’t know when cooking became so daunting. It kind of crept up on me. Just the thought overwhelms me. How do people do that every night?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“How am I supposed to have time to reflect? How can I feel joyful when I’m constantly gripped by panic? How am I supposed to write down my aspirations when my only aspiration is stay on top of life and I’m failing at that?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“at my core. Nothing’s on fire, exactly, but nor is”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“So it’s not that I want to have sex. I want to want sex. I want to crave sex. I want to wake up that appetite.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“I don’t know when cooking became so daunting. It kind of crept up on me. But now I just can’t face it. I cannot face buying some piece of…whatever…food, I guess, from the supermarket. And peeling it or whatever, cutting it up, getting out pans and looking for a recipe and then washing up afterward. Just the thought overwhelms me. How do people do that every night?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“I hadn't realized how stressful it was, sitting at that old desk of mine, seething and brooding and worrying, waiting to be told what was possible, what could happen, what couldn't happen.”
― Sophie Kinsella;, The Burnout

“I needed to look the right way, away from my screens, my emails, my narrow life, my limitations. I need to look to the horizon, to see the opportunities rising and paddle toward them.”
― Sophie Kinsella;, The Burnout

“I want to enjoy life again, I realize. Because life is the ride, and the ride is it. You have to enjoy it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“I watch the buses, the people, the pigeons even, all busily going about their day in the sunshine. And I feel a kind of wave of love for it all. OK, there’s noise, fumes, bits of litter gusting along in the summer breeze. But even so, London doesn’t look like a world of stress to me anymore. It looks like a place of endeavour, of human connection, of chances.

I’m enjoying life, I think as I take my coffee. I’m enjoying the ride. And that’s all you can ask.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Tears suddenly edge my closed eyes. I love him. The universe sent him to me and thought, Let’s give her one she’ll fall desperately in love with.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“But I’m not making the mistake of listening to my skippy, romantic heart. I’m listening to my solid, somewhat-jaded brain instead.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Can you ever get childhood levels of happiness back? Could we ever be happy as we were here as kids?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“If you’re not kind, never mind.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Maybe I can’t commune with nature, but I sure as hell can commune with carbs.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout