539 Quotes by Sophie Kinsella

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me.

It was about how you have to be strong to break free from abuse and not constantly measure yourself against toxic people but stand strong and distinct like a healthy tree. Not some stunted, falling-over, co-dependent victim tree. Or whatever.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn’t want to do it anymore.

I think what I’ve realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn’t matter if you slip down. As long as you’re kind of heading more or less upwards. That’s all you can hope for. More or less upwards.

My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it’s the best stuff. She sells it for a fortune, btw.

The trouble with me is, I can’t let things go.

Oh, this shouldn’t be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you’ve met in the gym should never meet you in real life.

It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out... My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it’s the best stuff... If rhubarb needs time in the dark maybe you do too.