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Madeleine Sophie Wickham (née Townley; 12 December 1969 – 10 December 2025), known by her pen name Sophie Kinsella, was an English author. She is especially known for her best-selling Shopaholic series of novels. The first two novels in the series, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2000) and Shopaholic Abroad (2001), were adapted into the film Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009).

Quotes from Sophie Kinsella

That's the way it goes. Some things happen—and some things don't. This one obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down…I still believe it was.

—Sophie Kinsella in The Undomestic Goddess

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

—Sophie Kinsella in The Undomestic Goddess

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job.

—Sophie Kinsella in Remember Me?

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That's the way life is.

—Sophie Kinsella in Can You Keep a Secret?

truth life relationships forever

Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.

—Sophie Kinsella in Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable.

—Sophie Kinsella in Confessions of a Shopaholic

I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. Shes the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.

—Sophie Kinsella in I've Got Your Number

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

—Sophie Kinsella in Twenties Girl

emotions relationship feelings

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.

—Sophie Kinsella in Confessions of a Shopaholic

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

—Sophie Kinsella in The Undomestic Goddess

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

—Sophie Kinsella in Remember Me?

perspective age thirteen crushes

Books

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