Sophie Jordan quote: "Don't stay away from me anymore."<br />I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't lie. <br />He opens his eyes. Stares starkly, bleakly. "I <i>need</i> you."

You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. B...
SOPHIE JORDAN

I wish for adventure.

I wish to matter.

I wish for a home.
SOPHIE JORDAN

It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hand...
SOPHIE JORDAN

Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can't give him up. H...
SOPHIE JORDAN

Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me...
SOPHIE JORDAN

He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I ad...
SOPHIE JORDAN

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down int...
SOPHIE JORDAN

Hi," I return, gesturing to the fish. "Nice catch."
"Yeah. I'm kind of impressed with myself. I...
SOPHIE JORDAN

His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can fe...
SOPHIE JORDAN

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
SOPHIE JORDAN

So what's the deal with you and my sister?"
He laughs shortly and rubs the back of his neck li...
SOPHIE JORDAN

But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to...
SOPHIE JORDAN

Things happen. Things that you think you'll never get over. But you do. You move on. It gets better ...
SOPHIE JORDAN

'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!
SOPHIE TURNER

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.
SOPHIE MARCEAU

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
SOPHIE MCSHERA

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 s...
SOPHIE TUCKER

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.
SOPHIE MASSON

Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they be...
SOPHIE HANNAH

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

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against yo...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which...
SOPHIE HANNAH

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best fri...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.
SOPHIE THOMPSON

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kins...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.
SOPHIE THOMPSON

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in uns...
SOPHIE ALDRED

Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go ...
SOPHIE WU

Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to mak...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.
SOPHIE TURNER

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, ...
SOPHIE HANNAH

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.
SOPHIE TURNER

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels tha...
SOPHIE HANNAH

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by an...
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

I'm a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do i...
SOPHIE PASCOE

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy ...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issu...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very go...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the la...
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough!
SOPHIE MCSHERA

Obviously I've had crushes, and I've tried to make things work with people, but it doesn'...
SOPHIE TURNER

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.
SOPHIE MCSHERA

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to kn...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a...
SOPHIE MONK

With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories ab...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interes...
SOPHIE MARCEAU

Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I rea...
SOPHIE TURNER

You look... amazing!"
And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black....
SOPHIE KINSELLA

She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Keep breathing.
SOPHIE TUCKER

I've been rich and Ive been poor -- and believe me, rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER

I'm not cheap, but I am reasonable
SOPHIE TUCKER

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
SOPHIE TUCKER

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good...
SOPHIE TUCKER

When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' w...
SOPHIE TURNER

After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to ...
SOPHIE MONK

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindle...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it wa...
SOPHIE MARCEAU

I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBu...
SOPHIE HUNTER

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want...
SOPHIE OKONEDO

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 sh...
SOPHIE TUCKER

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.
SOPHIE TURNER

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
SOPHIE MARCEAU

I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once t...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's ...
SOPHIE PASCOE

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you ...
SOPHIE HANNAH

But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. Th...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I think what I’ve realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the d...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don&...
SOPHIE HANNAH

I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.
SOPHIE TURNER

I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the fut...
SOPHIE TURNER

I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds Universi...
SOPHIE HANNAH

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

On Leonardo DiCaprio: What is he - eleven? thirteen? I could play his nanny.
SOPHIE MARCEAU

I hurl the glass teapot to the ground.

we both stare at it, stunned.

"it was s...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should s...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
SOPHIE KERR

I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a littl...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Kno...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Late...
SOPHIE SCHOLL

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. I...
SOPHIE SCHOLL

When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumpe...
SOPHIE TURNER

Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-...
SOPHIE TURNER

I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

You spend a lot of time studying, and you want to do something with that. Something that's tangi...
SOPHIE HUNTER

The key is that people need to be saving in other ways, using investment vehicles, stocks, bonds, an...
SOPHIE BECKMANN

It's only in the 'fair' range probably because of real estate appreciation and stock market gains. I...
SOPHIE BECKMANN

You want to be doing things that educate them and help them understand their actions have consequenc...
SOPHIE BECKMANN

The tax code is just as complex as last year, if not a bit more so.
SOPHIE BECKMANN

San Diego is ranked below average in every category.
SOPHIE BECKMANN

The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be ...
SOPHIE SCHOLL

I feel time beginning to slow, until the last of him is grey powder on the sea and time stops altoge...
SOPHIE HARDCASTLE

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all...
SOPHIE HANNAH

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.
SOPHIE SCHOLL

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get int...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Some of These Days,
SOPHIE TUCKER

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good ...
SOPHIE TUCKER

I've been rich and I've been poor; Believe me, honey, rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER

What you cannot imagine, you cannot fear.
SOPHIE HANNAH

Sometimes, convenience has the appearance of logic.
SOPHIE HANNAH

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groce...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Brazil is currently producing about 1.7 million barrels a day. This new field will boost output by a...
SOPHIE ALDEBERT

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do wit...
SOPHIE OKONEDO

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encou...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Keep breathing
SOPHIE TUCKER

Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're goi...
SOPHIE TURNER

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.
SOPHIE TURNER

If only there was something to trade, someone to trade with; Cass would rip her soul from her body a...
SOPHIE LITTLEFIELD

It's so surreal it's hysterical.
SOPHIE MONK

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. SOPHIE KINSELLA

To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded l...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I want him."
"I'm sorry?" I peer at her, flicking my mobile open out of habit.
"The man I ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Oh, my God, you smiled! Mr. American Frown actually smiled!"
"Must have been a mistake. I'll sp...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
SOPHIE KINSELLA

It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Y...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in char...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I often wonder what she's thinking," says Ed, still gazing up at her. "That's quite an intriguing ex...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. H...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace......
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I can see the warmth. He's falling for me.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their o...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the vi...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

L: You want me just to be your... friend?

E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardi...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky w...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

No human on God's earth is a nobody.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hop...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Watching and learning from Mama and the other women in my family gave me a deep love for home and he...
SOPHIE HUDSON

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

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

Co-signing a car loan may be okay if you think your child is trustworthy and that's the only way the...
SOPHIE BECKMANN

Smoking is hardest to give up because it's legal. I smoke because I'm addicted - nicotine should be ...
SOPHIE ANDERTON

Whether this is true of Kate I don't know. The drugs were the most important thing to me.
SOPHIE ANDERTON

I had a lot of friends that were extremely hedonistic, extremely debauched, swapping partners etc. S...
SOPHIE ANDERTON

Drugs are so accessible within the industry, and it is very difficult to steer completely clear of t...
SOPHIE ANDERTON

I'll miss my AA meetings
SOPHIE ANDERTON

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Anger was better than weeping.
SOPHIE PAGE

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Repentance is accepted remorse.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportu...
SOPHIE HANNAH

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

She was attempting to flirt with him, in hopes he’d put in a good word for her with Captain Alvare...
SOPHIE DAVIS

I am a big fan of cosy. I get very excited by a roaring fire and even a perfectly made cup of tea. A...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My...
SOPHIE HANNAH

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be j...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

First and foremost, it's paramount for young child to learn how to swim, and the best place for ...
SOPHIE PASCOE

What I am interested in is the present time.
SOPHIE MARCEAU

I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!
SOPHIE ALDRED

People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I&...
SOPHIE MONK

Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, totally passive aggr...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You d...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

If I was really a bitch I’d make your life a living hell. Instead, I’ll just stand by and watch ...
SOPHIE MONROE

I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the ...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.
SOPHIE KINSELLA

We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."

"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's g...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because every...
SOPHIE HANNAH

I can't remember a time in my life where I haven't been aware of discrimination against women and th...
SOPHIE BRION

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this lette...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, s...
SOPHIE HANNAH

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really s...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Dans les jours d'après nous distribuerons tes soixante-dix-sept peluches, une par une ou deux par d...
SOPHIE DAULL

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea ...
SOPHIE OKONEDO

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bu...
SOPHIE TURNER

Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!
SOPHIE TURNER

I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I coul...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and th...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Don't stay away from me anymore."
I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't lie.
He opens his eyes. Stares starkly, bleakly. "I need you.

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Don't stay away from me anymore."
I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't lie.
He opens his eyes. Stares starkly, bleakly. "I need you.

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Don't stay away from me anymore."
I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't lie.
He opens his eyes. Stares starkly, bleakly. "I need you.