I Owe You One Quotes

“I learned that failing doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you're a human being.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“I think you need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“But what can you do about mistakes except think, Won't do that again, and move forward?”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“You can’t go back in time and do life a different way.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“The trouble with me is, I can't let things go.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“There's only so long you can smile brightly at the man who has your heart but loves someone else.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“Suddenly I can't bear being near him anymore. I can't bear seeing his generous, brave face, his woodland eyes, his everything... and knowing that they can't be mine.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“You forgive the person and you endlessly rationalize and you forget..."

"That there are other people out there," says Seb softly, and as he meets my eyes, I feel a sudden tightening in my stomach.

Other people. What does he mean? Me?

No, don't be stupid, I scold myself at once. Of course he doesn't mean me. He probably means, like, there are loads of people on Tinder.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“The trouble is, I'm sorry doesn't power anything. It drags you down.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“The rational part of my brain understands that everything is random. There are a million possibilities in the universe. Us meeting is just one of those possibilities, and just as meaningless.

The thing is, though, I can't imagine a world that didn't bring us together. We were meant to be.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“She somehow understands that I have to know how Seb is, because I feel this strange, inextricable link to him. Which isn't a relationship-- God, of course not. We're not even friends, really. It's just... it's a different kind of thing. A yearning. A tugging in my heart. A need to be with him and know that he's OK. I mean, what would you call that?”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“We’ve all got to have some kind of failure in life, and I had mine early. I got back on my feet. I learned that failing doesn’t mean you are a failure; it just means you’re a human being.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“But here’s the thing, if you’re responsible for someone’s money, you’ve got to be able to ask questions. Doesn’t matter if you sound stupid.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“Family bloody first. I’m not saying Dad was wrong, I’ll never say that, but maybe I’m starting to see “family”differently. It’s not just the people you share genes with; it’s the people you share loyalty and friendship and respect with. It’s the people you love.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“You get into a relationship. And you know that person has flaws, everyone does … but you can get so used to them that you … you forget. You forget that there’s another way.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“She looked like a mean newsreader.” I put on an exaggerated TV voice. “Hello. This is the Mean News. You’re all rubbish and I despise you.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“The law doesn’t always know what it’s doing,” he adds for good measure. “Humans have a far greater instinct for what’s right in life than lawyers do.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“Family bloody first.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“telly, partying with royalty and”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

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― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“You need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“You saved my life, Fixie. To repay you that is impossible. Just know that from now on I owe you everything.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“Kau baik untukku, Fixie.' Seakan-akan aku ini suatu diet jus atau serangkaian TEDtalk.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“I don't know what magic has brought him here. My brain can't function well enough; I can't make sense of it. But he's here. And his eyes are telling me that they love me.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“The law doesn't always know what it's doing. Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“I tell myself to look away, but the truth is, I don't want to look away. I want to be drawn into his gaze. Which is dumb. And wrong. He belongs to another woman, I remind myself sternly. He likes whiny, shouty, newsreadery-type women.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“I'm not gullible, I'm trusting.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“Sense has taken a back seat for now. Alcohol is in charge of talking. And Alcohol says, 'Woo! Anything goes!”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“So instead I’m zapping her lots of smiley faces and emojis of shiny suns and sailboats and dodging the truth altogether. (Maybe that’s what emojis were invented for in the first place, and I’ve just been using them wrong. They’re not there to convey thoughts in a fun way; they’re there to lie to your mum.)”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One

“But maybe I was lucky, I find myself thinking. We’ve all got to have some kind of failure in life, and I had mine early. I got back on my feet. I learned that failing doesn’t mean you are a failure; it just means you’re a human being.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I Owe You One