We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends. Sophie Kinsella More Quotes by Sophie Kinsella More Quotes From Sophie Kinsella I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me. Sophie Kinsella teapots glasses break "This is me, remember!" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank statements into the trash and hope a complete stranger would pay off your bills!" This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you. Sophie Kinsella use secret pay A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right. Sophie Kinsella mistake I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl. Sophie Kinsella girl wish sometimes Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words. Sophie Kinsella italian hair might Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message." Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring. Sophie Kinsella film messages mean Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something? Sophie Kinsella physics parent law Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends. Sophie Kinsella dancing guests ideas We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow. OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something. Sophie Kinsella body baby facts Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be. Sophie Kinsella should looks firsts You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom." "Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?" "I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her! Sophie Kinsella tears writing doors I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories Sophie Kinsella coats shopping color That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown. Sophie Kinsella world-love flirting love-you It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is. Sophie Kinsella girl dark hair You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that we had. Everyone was jealous of us at Cambridge, everyone. We were perfect together." We weren't perfect!" He looks at her incredulously. "And I didn't panic---" You did! You couldn't cope with the commitment! It frightened you!" It did not frighten me!" Luke shouts, exasperated. "It made me realize you weren't the person I wanted to have children with. Or spend the rest of my life with. Ever. And that's why I ended it! Sophie Kinsella jealous children commitment Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her! Sophie Kinsella nurse book blood My voice is clotted with unshed tears. Sophie Kinsella unshed-tears voice tears sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next! Sophie Kinsella goal love needs All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry. Sophie Kinsella hungry-for-success hungry It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old. Sophie Kinsella eight mean years