Just Haven't Met You Yet

by Sophie Cousens

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 turning corners, and no one is ever there.

All the cool, flirty body language I could have gone for, and I went for the thumbs-up.

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

“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.”

“When you are with someone for a long time, you grow into each other, like adjoining trees with tangled roots. It’s hard to extricate yourself and find the part that’s left—who you were before.”

“I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. I want someone to share me with me.”

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

“Enjoy yourself, kiddo.”

“Unsuitable men always kiss better, everyone knows that.

“The human heart is like a flowerbed, Laura. Once the first blooms die, there’s room enough for something else to grow, but it will never be quite the same as that first flower, the initial thrill of seeing what your heart is capable of.”

“There is an old proverb: He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.”

“Now, take it from two women with over a dozen decades of experience between us, there’s no such thing as a ‘happily ever after.’ Maybe a ‘happy for now,’ if you’re lucky.”

“People fight, people break up. It doesn’t mean it wasn’t real and it doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth having, Laura. All these films where people walk off into the sunset at the end and you’re led to believe all their problems are over . . .”

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