The One Before the One Quotes

“There are moments in your life that you try to capture; to take a snapshot of, keeping the past alive in the present. You can imagine them as Polaroids carefully placed in a scrapbook, surrounded by tickets, by menus, by hastily scribbled notes on the back of napkins. These images tend to be the good days: the Friday nights, the Saturdays, the lazy Sundays – our own inner Instagram posts. Monday and Thursday photos are often discarded, the images fading and the corners curling with time. But right now? This is a keeper. Because I got to fall in love with the man I’m going to marry… twice in one lifetime.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One

“our life is made up of thousands of days where nothing seems to really happen: breakfast, work, dinner; conversations with friends, with family; day trips to the beach. It all passes us by so quickly, just like the houses sliding from view outside the window of this train, just like those everyday ‘days’ that mould into one. But in each of those everydays are the people around us. And it’s in the people we choose to spend our time with that make the everydays special.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One

“The present is such a gift. Living is such a gift. Don’t let it slip through your fingers.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One

“Ask for help. Live in the now. Not the past where all of your mistakes are, not the future where you see yourself winning that big bet, but now.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One

“It means someone who always thinks that something good is going to happen even if the truth is that, sometimes, you have to think of the risks too.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One

“Fix my predilection for tall blonds with knackers instead of knockers.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One

“That’s what I was trying to do until you started throwing your arms around like an air traffic controller.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One

“There is something dreamlike when you see yourself in your wedding dress, like you’re seeing a different version of yourself, a paradoxical image,”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One

“I turn the kettle on, a teabag already waiting in the cup. I smile. It’s in these little details, isn’t it? These details that let us know we’re loved. It’s not red roses and surprise tickets, jewellery in blue boxes or poetry; it’s in the simple things that show me I’m on his mind.”
― Emma Cooper, The One Before the One