Just Haven't Met You Yet

by Sophie Cousens

I’m torn between being super happy that they found each other and just a tiny bit jealous that these situations never seem to happen to me.

I’m your classic hopeless romantic.

I’ve been finding it harder to witness other people’s “happily ever afters.”

Maybe it was easier to be happy for other people when I felt my own soulmate might be just around the corner, but I keep turnin...

Everyone is moving on, without me.

“Keep the faith. He’s out there—you just haven’t met him yet.”

His easy smile suggests someone who thinks the world a wonderful place,

When I was twenty-five, I thought I would have achieved so much by the time I was almost thirty.

“I think objects can be powerful conduits for memories.”

“My mother used to collect it. She’d say the sea was trying to give us back something beautiful from the ugly things we throw away.”

Maybe we don’t have enough words to express sympathy.

“Where do you think the love goes, when no one’s left to tell the story?”

I wonder if all the men I’ve known have actually been boys.

But my hand feels hot where I’ve touched his thigh.

‘Don’t hope or fear, but seize today, you must! And in tomorrow put complete mistrust.’ All any of us have is today.”

‘Tide and time wait for no man.’ So get on your surfboard and catch that wave, even if you’re shaking like a rattle all the way in, because I’m yet to be reliably informed if there’s decent surf in heaven.”

“Most of us will never be the best at anything we do. It isn’t a reason not to do it.”

Part of me just wants to walk into the waves and wash off the curdling brain fog.

Tiger Women do not need alcohol. It poisons the brain and pollutes the soul. People use it to escape, to find confidence, to soften the edges of reality. Do not soften your reality—keep your senses sharp. You must be present to catch your prey. Drink water. Eat power. Be roar.

his luggage he might be. “I’m looking forward to seeing more

I don’t think it’s very ladylike to kiss two different men on the same day.

Just because I’ve been dating for years, waiting for the right person, it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with me, does it?

“I think sometimes your generation gets caught up in the wrapping paper of love.”

“That watery horizon is a spirit level for the soul,” says Gerry. “When you look at it for long enough, it puts life straight again.”

there’s something about watching the ocean that puts everything into perspective.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.”

Time disappears into the place it goes when you are in creative flow.

“I missed knowing my granddaughter over two pieces of silver. I am a foolish Judas.”

I have learned my lesson not to put trinkets over flesh and blood.”

“maybe life’s more about carving out happy chapters than finding a single happy ending.”

Searching his eyes, I see something I never want to let go of.

Half of the battle is knowing what you want. When you know what you want, you can pounce on it with four paws. If you don’t know: Stop. Breathe. Look. Smell. Tiger Women have senses, instincts. Use them.

“You are spectacular. You have woken me up, and I never want to be asleep again.”