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

—Sophie Kinsella in Confessions of a Shopaholic

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...

More quotations from Sophie Kinsella

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

—Sophie Kinsella in Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

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?

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

—Sophie Kinsella in Remember Me?

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

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

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