Frasi di Sophie Kinsella

“Forse sono priva di quel particolare gene che ti fa maturare […] Tutti stanno andando avanti senza di me, verso un mondo che non comprendo.”

“Il lavoro è sicuramente una
delle cose più importanti della vita, e dovrebbe essere adatto a
te. Lo stipendio non è tutto.”

“A volte penso che staremmo meglio se fossimo semi di soffione: niente famiglia, niente storia, liberi di volare nel mondo, ciascuno nel proprio batuffolo di lanugine.”

“La vita reale non è veleggiare per Knightsbridge in taxi o scegliere valigie da mille sterline. No, questa è la vita reale. A casa in un minuscolo appartamento che puzza ancora di curry, una pila di lettere minacciose della banca che ti aspettano, e tu che non hai la minima idea di che fare al riguardo.”

“Non ti colpevolizzare perché non conosci tutte le risposte. Non sempre è necessario sapere chi sei. Non è necessario avere il quadro completo, né sapere dove stai andando. A volte è sufficiente anche solo sapere cosa si farà dopo.”

“Mi pare di aver capito una cosa, e cioè che la vita è questo, salire e poi scivolare più giù, e ricominciare a salire. Le scivolate non contano. L'importante è che il percorso nel suo insieme vada più o meno verso l'alto. E' il massimo che si può chiedere. Più o meno, salire.”

“Io non mi sono mai sentita vecchia. Nessuno si sente vecchio. […] Io mi sono sempre sentita così: una ragazza di vent'anni, per tutta la vita. L'aspetto esteriore è solo… un involucro»”

“Il reparto pediatrico è in una grande clinica privata che si chiama St John e che paghiamo grazie all'assicurazione del papà. Ci ho passato sei settimane quando i miei genitori si sono resi conto che in me c'era veramente qualcosa che non andava.
Il guaio è che la depressione non arriva con comodi sintomi tipo macchioline e febbre, perciò uno non se ne accorge subito. Continui a dire:"Sto benissimo" a tutti anche quando non stai bene per niente. Pensi che dovresti stare bene. Continui a chiederti:"Perché non sto bene?".”

“Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.”

“I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.”

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

“Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?”

“Mummy always told me, you should never let a man see your feelings or the contents of your handbag.”

“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!”

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”

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

“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.”

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

“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”

“Lover? I don't know. 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. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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'.”

“It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.”

“A real relationship is two-way.”

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

“No human on God's earth is a nobody.”

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

“There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.”

“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”

“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”

“Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.”

“You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back… you might as well wish the sky were red.”