What Does It Feel Like? Quotes

“And right at that moment, this is her only aim in life, the only happy ending she wants. Just to keep going.”
― Sophie Kinsella , What Does It Feel Like?

“If you buy the dress, the occasion will come,”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“It warms her, to think of herself as part of a community, even if it’s not a community she would have chosen to join.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“You're not the boss anymore. Apparently not. Fate's the boss. And there are no teasers. All we can do is wait and see what happens.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“It doesn’t matter if anyone knows the answer, it can be good to ask the question anyway. And then we can all think about it and talk about it, maybe.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“Visualize going into a bookshop and finding the perfect book. The book you would buy immediately. What does it look like? What’s it about? What genre is it? Then write that book. And above all, write the truth. Write what you know and do it convincingly. I don’t mean write nonfiction,” she clarifies. “I mean write the truth about life, whatever genre you’re in.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“But when it comes to this, all we want, above anything else, is a spoiler. We desperately want the doctors to give us the spoiler, but they can't, because they don't know either.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“You have incurable cancer, my beautiful Eve. But you keep forgetting and I have to keep reminding you and these are the hardest moments of my life.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does it Feel Like?

“OK, here’s the thing,” says Eve honestly. “I’ve done a lot of exciting, bucket-listy stuff in my life. I’ve done glamorous travel and I’ve walked the red carpet and I’ve swum with dolphins. I don’t need to do any more of that stuff. I just need to be around. Have fun with the children. Have fun with you. See friends. Small pleasures.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“What does it feel like to have five children?” people ask, and all she can say is, “The same as having one child, times five.” The work is multiplied, the worry is multiplied, the joy is multiplied, the love is multiplied.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“I'm a novelist. I'm used to being God. I decide on the ending before I begin.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“Eve laughs in turn. “Maybe I don’t want a bucket list at all. I think what I want is just to live like we do anyway—you know, do our work and go for walks and watch Come Dine with Me—but have a slightly nicer version of it. Normal but better. Call it ‘Normal plus.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“I crawl into bed at eight o’clock, tired out and nauseous and longing for oblivion. I wake up twelve hours later, or thirteen or fourteen. I am greedy for sleep, I want only sleep. I seek unconsciousness like a crack addict seeking a hit.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“My advice is to write the book you would like to read yourself. Visualize going into a bookshop and finding the perfect book. The book you would buy immediately. What does it look like? What’s it about? What genre is it? Then write that book. And above all, write the truth. Write what you know and do it convincingly. I don’t mean write nonfiction,” she clarifies. “I mean write the truth about life, whatever genre you’re in.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“I don’t need to do any more of that stuff. I just need to be around. Have fun with the children. Have fun with you. See friends. Small pleasures.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does it Feel Like?

“Fate’s the boss. And there are no teasers. All we can do is wait and see what happens.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“But what she has learned is that you can feel guilty for having had bad luck.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“You are queen of happy endings. Happy endings bought this house. He gestures around. We're very grateful to happy endings.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“Hello, it's Eve Monroe for the plastic chairs.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“You hate spoilers in books and films. We both do. But when it comes to this, all we want, above anything else, is a spoiler. We desperately want the doctors to give us the spoiler, but they can’t, because they don’t know either.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“I am an Oxford graduate, thinks Eve. I got a first in PPE. And now all my words have disintegrated in my brain. Or maybe the surgeon took them out by mistake.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“And so they formulated their little speech for the children carefully—not too scaremongering but not too glib either. Realistic yet optimistic and full of hope, which is basically how Eve feels when she’s not racked with guilt.”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?

“«Forse non mi interessa proprio, la lista di cose da fare prima di morire. Credo che quello che voglio sia vivere come al solito - sai, no, lavorare e andare a passeggio e guardare "Come Dine with Me" -, ma in una versione leggermente più carina. La vita normale, ma meglio. Chiamiamolo "normale plus".»
«"Normale plus"» ripete Nick. «Mi piace. Puntiamo al normale plus in tutto quello che facciamo. perciò, quando andiamo al cinema, prendiamo dei biglietti leggermente migliori.»
«Esatto. E mangiamo cose più buone di quelle che mangeremmo normalmente.»”
― Sophie Kinsella, What Does It Feel Like?