Surprise Me Quotes

“Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating. And so... not an achievement, my dear. Rather, a privilege.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“If love is easy, you're not doing it right.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“I think a relationship is like two stories,” I say at last, feeling my way cautiously through my thoughts. “Like…two open books, pressing together, and all the words mingle into one big, epic story. But if they stop mingling…” I lift my glass for emphasis. “Then they turn into two stories again. And that’s when it’s over.” I clap my hands together, spilling champagne. “The books shut. The End.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“grief is long and messy and horrible—but it’s not an illness. And you cope how you cope. There’s no ‘well’ about it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“If we don't stick up for the ones we love, then what are we good for?

Professor Russell”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating .” John seems lost in thought again— then comes to. “And so…not an achievement, my dear.” He gives me a mild, kind smile. “Rather, a privilege.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“Which is just grief, I guess. I've decided that grief is like a newborn baby. It knocks you for six. It takes over your brain with its incessant cry. It stops you sleeping or eating or functioning, and everyone says, "Hang in there, it gets easier." What they don't say is, "Two years on, you'll think it's got easier, but then, out of the blue, you'll hear a certain tune in the supermarket and start sobbing.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“But nothing changes if nothing changes. I saw that slogan on a T-shirt the other day, and it really resonated. I've changed. My horizons have shifted, And if I want to keep growing and changing, I need to challenge myself.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“„Planst grow towards the light. Do people grow towards the light?“ Tessa says, in that joking way she has. Professor Russell says mildly „Yes, my dear. I believe we do. We have, of course, many different kinds of light“ Professor Russell continues, almost dreamily. „Sometimes our light might be a faith, or an ideology, or even a person, and we grow towards that.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“He’s listening silently to his mother, leaning against the front doorway, his hands shoved in his pockets, his expression distant. Toby could be really good-looking, but he’s got one of those beards. There are sexy beards and there are stupid beards, and his is stupid. It’s so straggly and unformed, it makes me suck in breath. I mean, just trim it. Shape it. Do something with it….”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“I am an early riser,' he says at last. 'So I watch Owen wake up every morning. And each morning reveals something new. The light catches his face in a particular way; he has a fresh thought; he shares a memory. Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating.' John seems lost in thought again - then comes to. 'And so... not an achievement, my dear.' He gives me a mild, kind smile. 'Rather, a privilege.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“Shit. My Fitbit’s stopped working. Is it the battery?” Tilda clicks with annoyance. “How many steps have we done?” She bangs her Fitbit. “It doesn’t count unless it goes on my Fitbit. I might as well not have bothered.” Tilda’s Fitbit is her latest obsession. For a while it was Instagram, and our daily walk was punctuated by her taking endless photos of raindrops on leaves. Now it’s steps.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“How many divorces are caused by the word nothing? I think this would be a very interesting statistic.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“I'm not quite sure if he's talking to me or to himself, but every word he says feels like a drop of Wise Potion. I want to hear more. I want him to tell me all the answers to life.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“The honest, deep down truth. We're both shit-scared of this epic, Lord of the Rings-scale marriage we suddenly appear to find ourselves in.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“And I can’t sigh or roll my eyes or exclaim, “I’m so stressed!” because they, I now realize, are things you do when you’re not really worried. When you’re really worried, you go silent and pick at your fingernails and forget to put your lipstick on.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“(This isn’t just us, by the way; it’s every other family I know with young children. The general perception is that if bath time goes, everything goes. Chaos descends. Civilization disintegrates. Children are found wandering the street in tatters, gnawing on animal bones while their parents rock and whimper in alleyways. Kind of thing.)”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“But isn’t that what every young couple thinks, and then suddenly, boom, they’re old and bitter and not looking at each other properly?”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“If love is easy…” I hesitate. “You’re not doing it right.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“We’ve always been that couple. Blended. Intertwined. We read each other’s thoughts. We finished each other’s sentences. I thought we couldn’t surprise each other anymore.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“All our institutions, including that of marriage and the family, are historically based on short and vulnerable lives….The twenty-first century has to adapt all of these institutions to deal with longer and longer lives.” —Sarah Harper, professor of gerontology, University of Oxford”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating.” John seems lost in thought again—then comes to. “And so…not an achievement, my dear.” He gives me a mild, kind smile. “Rather, a privilege.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“Frusture is my word for the exquisite fury that only your husband can give you. Not only are you furious, you feel like he’s doing it all on purpose, in order”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“But they can’t just “get rid” of people! Their”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“a whole group of tech whizzes are”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“If love is easy, then you're not doing it right.

Tilda”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me

“Frusture is my word for the exquisite fury that only your husband can give you. Not only are you furious, you feel like he’s doing it all on purpose, in order to torment you.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Surprise Me