Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

she doesn’t really have a sense of humor. I think she’d like to have one—it’s just that she doesn’t quite understand what jokes are for.

You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road... you're practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK?

I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.

Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.