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Shit. My Fitbit's stopped working. Is it the battery?" Tilda clicks with annoyance. "How many steps have we done?" She bangs her Fitbit. "It doesn't count unless it goes on my Fitbit. I might as well not have bothered." Tilda's Fitbit is her latest obsession. For a while it was Instagram, and our daily walk was punctuated by her taking endless photos of raindrops on leaves. Now it's steps."
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Sophie Kinsella |
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The trouble with me is, I can't let things go.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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Everyone knows, the point of an interview is not to demonstrate who you are, but to pretend to be whatever sort of person they want for the job.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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You can't go back in time and do life a different way.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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I think you need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.
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teacher in class. "The Divorce Fantasy will never happen," I mumble finally, staring at my fingernails. "The Divorce Fantasy will never happen," he repeats with emphasis. "The judge will never read a two-hundred-page dossier on Daniel's shortcomings aloud in court, while a crowd jeers at your ex-husband. He will never start his summing up, 'Ms. Graveney, you are a saint to have put up with such an evil scumbag and I thus award you everythin..
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I'm not quite sure if he's talking to me or to himself, but every word he says feels like a drop of Wise Potion. I want to hear more. I want him to tell me all the answers to life.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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The whole point about T-shirts is you choose them in the morning according to your mood, like crystals, or aromatherapy oils.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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This is my new guiding principle: Find a man of quality. Not a man who excites me but one who values me. Not a man who takes me to the moon and then vanishes off to New York but one who takes me to...Bracknell, maybe.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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She has amazing eyebrows. Some people are just granted amazing eyebrows, and she's one of them.
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Love is finding one person infinitely fascinating ." John seems lost in thought again-- then comes to. "And so...not an achievement, my dear." He gives me a mild, kind smile. "Rather, a privilege."
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I look along the endless line, squinting in the sunshine. I'm twenty-nine years old. I can go anywhere. Do anything. Be anyone I like. "There's no rush," I say at last, and reach up to kiss him again."
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Sophie Kinsella |
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I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, Is this my life, remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.
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Horen Sie genau zu, ich werde es nur einmal sagen. - Mit Grabestimme flustere ich ins Telefon. - Ich organisiere eine Uberraschungsparty fur Lukes Geburtstag. Die Sache ist streng geheim, und Sie sind der siebte Mensch auf der Welt, der davon erfahrt. Fast mochte ich hinzufugen: `Und jetzt muss ich Sie erschiessen.'
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is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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I run. I always fucking run. Well, I'm not running anymore. I want stability. I want love.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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Living in London is like living in a movie set, from the Dickensian backstreets to the glinting tower blocks to the secret garden squares. You can be anyone you want to be.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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Todo esse negocio de ser misterioso e distante e uma grande besteira. Todo mundo deveria compartilhar os segredos logo de cara.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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You get into a relationship. And you know that person has flaws, everyone does ... but you can get so used to them that you ... you forget. You forget that there's another way.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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Sometimes I worry my ideas might dry up', he says, an odd tone to his voice. 'I'm not sure who I'd be without them. Sometimes I think I'm really just an empty vessel floating about, downloading ideas and not much else.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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He leans forward, and this time there's no hesitation. His mouth lands on mine, sweet and firm. He's kissing me. Jack
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Sophie Kinsella |
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I didn't say you could have perfect experiences, I said you could have experiences.
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MISS KINSELLA'S NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS SUPPLIED BY: Rolo & Mint Aero
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Io non mi sono mai sentita vecchia. Nessuno si sente vecchio. [...] Io mi sono sempre sentita cosi: una ragazza di vent'anni, per tutta la vita. L'aspetto esteriore e solo... un involucro.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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he only looks at how hard a person works and what results they get--and not at what a completely horrible cow they are.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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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.
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to do. To be honest, I kept expecting someone to catch me out. But I put the ring tone on silent and no one realized I was texting Sam all the way through.43 And, yes,
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Sophie Kinsella |
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But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing. maybe not the easy thing-but the right thing.
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Frusture is my word for the exquisite fury that only your husband can give you. Not only are you furious, you feel like he's doing it all on purpose, in order to torment you.
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My friend lost his mother when we were at college. I spent a lot of nights talking with him. Lot of nights." He pauses. "I know what it's like. You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a "grown-up". And it never goes away,"
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sadness
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Il lavoro e sicuramente una delle cose piu importanti della vita, e dovrebbe essere adatto a te. Lo stipendio non e tutto.
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wackeres Stapfen durch die verregnete Oxford Street. Und mit einer Tonschale kann man nichts verkehrt machen, oder? Es gab da auf dem Markt auch Herrenbrieftaschen.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: they have their own crappy truths, too. Of course they do. And every time you see tour own crappy truth and feel despair and think: Is this my life...? You should remember: it's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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He's talking intently on his mobile phone and sipping a cup of coffee and frowning at something in the paper. But then he looks up and his dark eyes meet mine, and his whole face breaks into a smile. A true, affectionate smile, which makes him seem like a different person. When I first knew Luke, I only ever saw him businesslike and polite, or scarily angry, or--very occasionally--amused. Even after we started seeing each other, it was a lo..
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Plus, you know, the buffet really is excellent. And my appetite has greatly recovered after a few cups of coffee. In fact, I've decided to switch from the 5:2 diet to the "get the most from your buffet because it's costing you a fortune" diet."
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But even bitterness fades away eventually. We both have to believE that. Don't we?
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Sophie Kinsella |
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He flashes me a brief smile and I notice that his teeth are very white and even. Well.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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I think, if Demeter had to put her religion down on a form, she'd put Organic.
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Sophie Kinsella |
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Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything.
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rv
shopaholic
las-vegas
mystery
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Let me tell you why. As a clever man once said: a treasure such as this should not be left in the hands of Philistines. And Poppy is a treasure, though she doesn't realize it . . .' I
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Sophie Kinsella |
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I know that things are still uncertain; I know that reality hasn't gone away. There'll be explanations and recriminations and messiness. But right now I'm entwined with a man I think I might love. And I haven't married the man I know I don't love. And from where I'm looking that's pretty good going, for now. At
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Sophie Kinsella |
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As regards the DF 4000 Deluxe X-ray body scanner we were discussing, please be assured, I have never known a case of a husband "using it to track down shopping parcels hidden about his wife's person."
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Sophie Kinsella |
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Or Nick Park," I say craftily. "You know? The Wallace and Gromit man?" "Ah!" says Tarkie, perking up. "The Wrong Trousers. Now, that was a jolly good film."
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Sophie Kinsella |
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Every woman in the world sometimes thinks about shoes in the middle of sex. It's a well-known fact.
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