I'd laugh, only my stupid lizard brain has disabled the laugh button for now. I'm too frozen up with tension. I am owed so much laughter. Sometimes I hope I'm building up a stockpile of missing laughs, and when I've recovered, they'll all come exploding out in one gigantic fit that last twenty-four hours.

— Sophie Kinsella

I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper’s come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don’t know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.

— Sophie Kinsella

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

— Sophie Kinsella

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

— Sophie Kinsella

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

— Sophie Kinsella

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

— Sophie Kinsella

If your life's at a juncture, and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

— Sophie Kinsella

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes every day, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.

— Sophie Kinsella

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

— Sophie Kinsella

I'm Cinderella. No, I'm better than Cinderella, because she only got the prince, didn't she? I'm Cinderella with fab teeth and a shit-hot job.

— Sophie Kinsella