5 Quotes by Sophie Cousens

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.

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.

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.

Don't cry about something you wouldn't cry about in five years' time," she once told Minnie. "And swim—swim when you can." Those were her two pieces of life advice.

You snogged by the snow leopards, locked lips by the lemurs, canoodled by the tree frogs?