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Twenties Girl

Sophie Kinsella

2009

ISBN 978-0-440-29632-4

How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do..... You lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail- and out you go.

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.

So, what, you’re just treading water, just existing, waiting until you feel better? Well, you never will! Not unless you do something about it!…. Look at you, doing memos for other people, and emails for your mum, and solving everyone else’s problems because you don’t want to think about your own!

If you’re going to live in a place, doesn’t matter how long, you need to engage with it. Otherwise you’re not really living. You’re just functioning.

Life is like an escalator… You see, it carries you on regardless.

And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you’re passing. Otherwise it’ll be too late.

There are lots of definitions of ‘move on’ …… Many different variations. Everyone has to move on in their own way.

They’re all Sadie inside, aren’t they? They’re all in their twenties inside. All that white hair and wrinkled skin is just cladding. The old man with the oxygen tank was probably once a dashing heartthrob. That woman with distant rheum eyes was once a mischievous young girl who played pranks on her friends. They were all young, with love affairs and friends and parties and an endless lift ahead of them….

If your life’s at a juncture and you need to think about things, there’s nowhere better than home. However old you are.

There’s no place like home.

Keep moving onward.…. That’s always been my way.

It’s easy to discount family. It’s easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are.