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Sophie Cousens QUOTES

Sophie Cousens QUOTES

1 " Money isn’t everything. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

2 " Mum "

― Sophie Cousens , Just Haven't Met You Yet

3 " I find places like this so packed with memories. Visiting them can be like opening a memory jar. You take off the lid and the smells and sounds of a place hit you, unlocking things folded away deep in your brain. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

4 " People don’t want to be bitten into like an apple, …to show you their core in one conversation. Sometimes you have to peel the skin away slowly. "

― Sophie Cousens

5 " Don't cry about something you wouldn't cry about in five years' time," she once told Minnie. "And swim—swim when you can." Those were her two pieces of life advice. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

6 " You snogged by the snow leopards, locked lips by the lemurs, canoodled by the tree frogs? "

― Sophie Cousens

7 " An orange carpet of leaves covered the footpaths and a crisp, low light shone through the tangle of tree boughs above her head. She picked up a perfect red leaf from the ground, examining the intricate pattern of vessels mapping its thin surface. So beautiful, yet only created to last such a short time before its role on this planet was over, and it would decay into mulch. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

8 " Be a good companion to yourself and you will never be lonely. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

9 " Life is change -- if nothing's changing, you aren't living. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

10 " P.S. This book was written in a pre-COVID world. The 2020 of Minnie and Quinn’s world now exists only in some parallel universe. Whatever the year ahead might bring for us all, let’s keep reading. Books free us from isolation. Stories unite us. We’ve all had to play in one-player mode for a while—but we’re all still in this game together. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

11 " I don't think the scale of other people's problems make your own any easier to live with. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

12 " Someone once told me that growing up feeling loved allows you to go on to love other people. Maybe love is simply a huge chain letter, passed down through the generations. The details of the stories begin not to matter. "

― Sophie Cousens , Just Haven't Met You Yet

13 " If you kiss a man and he runs a mile, he’s no good. Life is full of times you have to turn toward the storm, and life brings many storms. Sick children, parents dying, cancer, just the challenge of building a life together and not driving each other completely nuts. You need a man who’ll turn in to the storm with you when it comes, doesn’t she, Clare? "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

14 " Quinn shrugged. “Better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you’re not. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

15 " Minnie, you were like this light coming into my life - you dazzle me. But your light also made me see all these shadows in my own life, shadows I finally realized I had to deal with. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

16 " When I meet the right man, he will believe in romance; he will get that it's important. Life can't just be about coupling up like yoghurts in a multi-pack. There's got to be more to it right? "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

17 " Don’t cry about something you wouldn’t cry about in five years’ time, "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year

18 " When tigers have something to say, do they work on a draft? Do they litter their message with niceties: “yours sincerely,” “thank you,” “please”? No. They do not. Women constantly undermine themselves with qualifying phrases like, “Sorry,” “I’m no expert but . . .” “I just wanted to check,” “I might have an idea.” Change the words you use, and you will change the way you are seen: I am not sorry, I am an expert, and I’m certainly not “yours,” sincerely or otherwise. "

― Sophie Cousens , Just Haven't Met You Yet

19 " He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. "

― Sophie Cousens , Just Haven't Met You Yet

20 " She hardly recognized herself and yet, somehow, this person felt like the truest reflection of who she really was. "

― Sophie Cousens , This Time Next Year