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

About Sophie Kinsella

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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...

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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?

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

—Sophie Kinsella in The Undomestic Goddess

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

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

—Sophie Kinsella in Twenties Girl

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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

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