Affinity

by Sarah Waters

She said then that, it was doing the same thing always that kept us ‘bound to the earth’; that we were made to rise from it, but would never do that until we changed.

we will all fly to someone, we will all return to that piece of shining matter from which our souls were torn with another, two halves of the same. It may be that the husband your sister has now has that other soul, that has the affinity with her soul—I hope it is. But it may be the next man she takes, or it may be neither. It may be someone she would never think to look to on the earth, someone kept from her by some false boundary