The Soulmate Quotes

“Turns out I don't need someone holding my board and pushing me into the wave - I can do it myself. Several times as, as I ride the wave, I have that glorious, blissful feeling... like I'm flying. It's even better than the feeling I had the day Gabe took me surfing. Because it taught me that Gabriel Gerard isn't the only one who can make magic. I can make magic too.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Sometimes," I said thoughtfully, "the road to our destination leads us in a direction we don't want to take. But does it matter, in the end, if it gets us where we want to go?”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Funny how love can remain, despite everything”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“It’s as if, while living your life, you view the world through a straw. You see only the tiniest sliver, all of it from your own perspective. Other people have their motives, their backstories, their feelings, but you don’t know that unless they share them with you, and even then there’s every chance they’re lying or prevaricating. What strikes me most now is the audacity of people, walking around with such certainty while armed with only the scantest information. I’m ashamed to say I was one of those people.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“You cannot go to the beach without coming back feeling a little better,”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“That’s another funny thing about marriage. Sometimes, when you look back on it, the worst moments are in fact the best.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“We trust people based on the strangest, most arbitrary things, none of which have any bearing on whether or not you are inherently good.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“You know how you feel for someone you know who is hurt or sick or sad? Imagine feeling that for everyone. Not just everyone you know, but everyone. Every person in the world. All the time.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“The thing about marriage a lot of people don’t understand is that you don’t get everything. Some people get passion, others get security. Some get companionship. Children. Money. Wisdom. Status. Then there is trust and fidelity.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Sometimes,' I said thoughtfully, 'the road to our destination leads us in a direction we don't want to take.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“It was an evening of that feeling you wanted to bottle, the feeling that no drug or orgasm could replicate—the skyrocketing high of limerence.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Maybe, for us, love was something to be whispered. Or, perhaps, never spoken of at all.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Our one nonnegotiable had always been loyalty. And what was infidelity if not a lapse in loyalty?”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Yes, he could hurt me. But he was the only one who could make me fly.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Either way, those are the strange, beautiful, and bizarre moments of marriage that no one tells you about. The moments that, even after everything, still pierce your heart.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“It was curious the way wealthy people found other people's poverty thrilling; often it even morphed into a perverse sort of admiration.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Then again, I’d also believed him when he said he’d never cheat on me. Goes to show how dangerous it can be, thinking that you know someone.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Asha was the product of my husband’s affair. Her very existence should have been a painful reminder, a slap in the face. Somehow, though, the opposite was true. Asha was a living breathing embodiment of the magic of Gabe. The beauty that came from the ugliness. She was the payoff for all the pain.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“How exquisitely, stupidly tragic. That was when I decided I’d never marry my soulmate. From what I could see, marrying your soulmate was reckless. A commitment like marriage was best treated like a contract, with a list of terms and conditions, and the potential to extricate yourself if the terms were breached. If I left love out of it, I would never end up the way my mother had, I reasoned.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“You were ghosted, Pip. You’re not meant to call people who have ghosted you.” “What are you meant to do if you’re ghosted?” Kat thought about this. “Honestly, I don’t know. Lesbians enjoy talking about our feelings too much to ghost people.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Your father was the love of my life. There will never be anyone else for me.” How exquisitely, stupidly tragic. That was when I decided I’d never marry my soulmate. From what I could see, marrying your soulmate was reckless. A commitment like marriage was best treated like a contract, with a list of terms and conditions, and the potential to extricate yourself if the terms were breached. If I left love out of it, I would never end up the way my mother had, I reasoned. Unfortunately, as so many of us do, I turned into my mother.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

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― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“What difference would it make if she had kids? Just because she didn’t have children doesn’t mean she wasn’t beloved. It doesn’t make her death any less sad.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“The thing about marriage a lot of people don’t understand is that you don’t get everything. Some people get passion, others get security. Some get companionship. Children. Money. Wisdom. Status. Then there is trust and fidelity. They’re the two you hear most about. In general, couples will cite trust or fidelity as their nonnegotiable. In a lot of cases, a partner will offer one in exchange for the other.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“Hurts from life come with you, but they don’t sting—like a mosquito bite that has lost its itch, you know it happened, but you don’t feel it anymore.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“It was an evening of that feeling you wanted to bottle, the feeling that no drug or orgasm could replicate - the skyrocketing high of limerence. I was delighted by everything: the way he paused to think before answering any question, as if whether or not he liked pickles was worthy of deep contemplation; the way he laughed loudly at my offhand jokes; the way his chest looked in his button-down shirt. And he delighted equally in me. It was delightful to be delighted in. By the time we made it back to his apartment, which was just a short walk away, it was not a question of whether the night was ending but, rather, where were we going next. The idea of parting was simply unthinkable. When I gathered my things to return home forty-eight hours later, he seemed adorably confused. "Where are you going?" he asked. "Home." I laughed. "I've been here two nights. How long did you think I would stay?" He looked at me as if it was the strangest thing I'd ever said. "Pippa," he said, "I thought you'd stay forever.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“I can make magic too.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“I must have been around eleven or twelve when I started noticing that something was different about him. I don’t even know how to explain it. It was little things. He’d talk a bit too fast. Or he’d jump from one topic to the next without any discernible connection. It was like his brain worked faster than everyone else’s. He knew what was going on in his head but no one else did.” Max was gazing out across the water. I squeezed his hand. “He felt everything more than other people, you know? Some days he carried the weight of the world on his shoulders and he didn’t understand how others weren’t carrying it too.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“I’d come to accept I was powerless in this; I couldn’t help him. But could I leave him? It felt impossible. He was the air I breathed. As difficult as life could be with him, it had to be better than life without him. Didn’t it?”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“I forgave him in that moment, as I always knew I would. It was impossible not to forgive this man. Even though I knew that, eventually, this would probably be my downfall.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate