Just Haven't Met You Yet Quotes

“maybe life’s more about carving out happy chapters than finding a single happy ending.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“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

“I have no illusions about happily ever afters—I know life will bring its challenges and nothing is forever—but I hope we might be happy today, and for as many todays as we are lucky enough to have.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“People like to fill in the gaps, to paint their own picture, but no one really knows the truth of someone else’s story.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“Most of us will never be the best at anything we do. It isn’t a reason not to do it.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. I want someone to share me with me.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“So, if I can’t look back, and I can’t look forward, I’m forced to live here, right now. Today I can sit around a campfire and talk to my friends. Today I can watch the sunset, even if the outline is getting hazy. Today I have made a new friend and I’m enjoying her company and her vibrant conversation.” He makes a single, slow nod in my direction. “The Roman poet Horace said: ‘Don’t hope or fear, but seize today, you must! And in tomorrow put complete mistrust.’ All any of us have is today.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“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.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“Maybe the only real legacy any of us can hope to leave is to be a link in the chain that keeps love flowing through the generations.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“You have to believe in a little magic when it comes to matters of the heart.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“Where do you think the love goes, when no one’s left to tell the story?” Ted looks thoughtful for a moment, then he says, “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

“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.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“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.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“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

“Some people bring out the parts of yourself you like the most,” he says. “I like the version of myself I am when I’m with you.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“People fight, people break up. It doesn’t mean it wasn’t real and it doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth having,”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“I will sign off hoping that you, dear reader, have a spirit level for your soul—be it a person, a place, or simply a cup of tea and a good book.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“The truth is boring. People want to buy a dream, not be reminded of reality.” “You’re wrong—I think all any of us want in this world is something real.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“As women, we spend so much of our lives feeling obliged. Obliged to show up when we say we will, obliged to turn up with a smile, obliged to tell everyone, “I am fine.” But obligated is just another word for oppressed. The only person you are obligated to is yourself.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“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.” Sue nods in agreement. “People fight, people break up. It doesn’t mean it wasn’t real and it doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth having,”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“Sea glass?” “It’s all over these beaches. It’s old glass—rubbish, worn down, and tumbled smooth by the sea,” he says, looking at the piece in my hand. “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.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“There is an old proverb: He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“The Roman poet Horace said: ‘Don’t hope or fear, but seize today, you must! And in tomorrow put complete mistrust.’ All any of us have is today.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“Maybe we don’t have enough words to express sympathy. We have fifty ways to describe a cup of coffee, but I can only think of one way to say, “I’m sorry for your loss.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“It’s about having the right to choose—you can choose to put on a pinny and be a fifties housewife if you want, you can choose to travel to Peru and join a commune or enlist in the space program and be the first woman on Mars. You can live how you like; but the point is we should have the chance to choose, not get railroaded into a role society dictates for us.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“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.” In that moment, I know exactly what he means, and I don’t know how I’ve stayed in the city so long, where there’s no chance for recalibration, no clean horizon to level you. Even with all the emotion this trip has thrown up, there’s something about watching the ocean that puts everything into perspective.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“But you do it anyway, even if you think you’ll never be as good as he was?” I ask Ilídio. He shrugs and takes a slug of his beer. “Most of us will never be the best at anything we do. It isn’t a reason not to do it.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“You know, love is not all about the grand gestures and the cutie meets, Laura.” I smile that she still hasn’t got the phrase right. “That’s the shiny book cover, not the story inside.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“You are spectacular. You have woken me up, and I never want to be asleep again.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet