Sophie Kinsella

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking...a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.

Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.

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.

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

She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone else. Sometimes she feels frightened." He pauses, and adds in a softer voice, "Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her."s

We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare.""Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great.""Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn__ exist anymore.

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

I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

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.

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail...

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.