539 Quotes by Sophie Kinsella

Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There’s always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief – that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.

Youth is still where you left it, and that’s where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life’s journey, you’ll already have taken with you.

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They’re toxic, and we’re only going to realize the damage they’re doing when it’s too late.

Sometimes, when I can’t get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I’d invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

But sometimes it’s hard to bear his disappointment at life as well as my own.

Everyone’s moving on without me, into a world I don’t understand.

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.

Wow. I’ve never been a VIP before. I’ve never even been a IP.

All this time, I wasn’t hungry for success, I was hungry.