This Time Next Year Quotes

“Be a good companion to yourself and you will never be lonely.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“Life is change -- if nothing's changing, you aren't living.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Quinn shrugged. “Better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you’re not.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“Don’t cry about something you wouldn’t cry about in five years’ time,”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“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

“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

“Better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you're not”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“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

“Be a good companion to yourself and you will never be lonely”—that had to be the aspiration. She wanted to fuel her own fire. If you got your fuel from men, they could leave, and you’d be left alone in the cold.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“But the biggest adventure of all has simply been being your friend.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“You need to learn how to be a "me" before you can be a "we”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“...You got the relationship you thought you were worth. If you thought you were only worth part of someone's attention, perhaps that was all you looked for.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“We have a saying in France, ‘À chaque oiseau son nid est beau’—the bird loves his own nest. You don’t know any other nest, Minnie. You must spread your wings and learn to fly.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“you let other people screw with your sense of self-worth too much.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“She wanted to fuel her own fire. If you got your fire from men, they could leave, and you'd be left alone in the cold.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“Don't cry about something you wouldn't cry about in five years' time, and swim - swim when you can.' Those were her two pieces of live advice.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“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. An unremarkable existence, and yet to look at it—how remarkable.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“He gets to have these lovely soul-searching chats with you - no commitment or expectation; then he gets to shag Little Miss Tinder when he likes - no commitment or expectation.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“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,”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“I was in the shower the other day and I was looking at this shampoo bottle my daughter bought me. It was made of real nice-feeling matte plastic, like someone had taken a lot of time over it. This bottle that was only made to hold shampoo for a month or two and it will probably be around on this planet longer than me. I’ll be dead in thirty years, and my kids might remember me, maybe even my grandkids, but then what? There will be no record I was ever here. But this shampoo bottle will still be existing somewhere, with its list of ingredients and its lovely matte finish.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“Everything’s an emergency, Min. Life’s an emergency. Do you know how many fish there are left in the sea? That’s a fucking emergency. We’re going to have to stop using the expression ‘plenty more fish in the sea’ because it’s factually inaccurate.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“All of it faded eventually. In every relationship, that initial fluttering feeling would simmer down and then disappear... The ephemeral nature of it meant you had to think with your head.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“how beautiful women, especially models, find growing older particularly hard. They are so used to turning heads in the street that as the gazes from strangers fall away, they lose their sense of identity.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“Life is change—if nothing’s changing, you aren’t living.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“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

“Be a good companion to yourself and you will never be lonely.” It was one of Leila’s highest aspirations: self-sufficiency.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year