14 Book Quotes About Soul Mates That Will Take Your Breath Away

"In some indefinable way he felt drawn to her, as if he already knew her, as if they had been close friends, soul mates even, somewhere in a previous existence. Her mere presence seemed to calm his thoughts, saving him from the vicissitudes of his mind. She appeared before him as familiar, a kindred spirit. Perhaps it was something in her face, her eyes. She seemed to know . . . what, exactly, he was not sure. She seemed to understand. Or rather, he had detected in her the capacity to understand."
― Tabitha Suzuma, Hurt

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She rubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time."
― Carol Oates, Something Wicked

"Soul mates aren't the ones who make you happiest, no. They're instead the ones who make you feel the most. Burning edges and scars and stars. Old pangs, captivation and beauty. Strain and shadows and worry and yearning. Sweetness and madness and dreamlike surrender. They hurl you into the abyss. They taste like hope."
― Victoria Erickson

"A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized."
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset

"I didn't just love him . . . I needed him. Not in some desperate 'you complete me' sort of way. No, Vincent didn't make me whole. He improved me. Something about him — something I didn't understand — had a way of amplifying the good in my nature while muting the bad. He was a catalyst for my soul. I didn't need him in order to exist . . . I needed him in order to be a better me."
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

"What is it which makes a man and a woman know that they, of all other men and women in the world, belong to each other? Is it no more than chance and meeting? no more than being alive together in the world at the same time? Is it only a curve of the throat, a line of the chin, the way the eyes are set, a way of speaking? Or is it something deeper and stranger, something beyond meeting, something beyond chance and fortune? Are there others, in other times of the world, whom we should have loved, who would have loved us? Is there, perhaps, one soul among all others — among all who have lived, the endless generations, from world's end to world's end — who must love us or die? And whom we must love, in turn — whom we must seek all our lives long, headlong and homesick — until the end?"
― Robert Nathan, Portrait of Jennie

"Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates — poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted; the sceptic, an ardent zealot."
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

"Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave."
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

"We've gotten to that stage all soul mates reach of speaking in broken phrases and incomplete sentences, our connected and all-knowing minds filling in the blanks left by redundant words."
― A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers

"'What's the difference?' I asked him. 'Between the love of your life, and your soul mate?'
'One is a choice, and one is not.'"
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

"'I don't care,' said Seth. 'I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me . . . I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other . . . even if we aren't together."
― Richelle Mead, Succubus Heat

"I think that we were both the same star in the beginning of the universe and as the star exploded we drew apart. Our atoms merging into two different bodies, but over time our atoms found a way and found each other again."
― Michaela Ruiz

"It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He'd thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he'd always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him.

His heart had been right. There was only one."
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman