What we are at heart looking for in friendship is not necessarily someone we can touch and see in front of us, but a person who shares, and can help us develop, our sensibility and values, someone to whom we can turn and look for a sign that they too feel what we have felt, that they are attracted, amused and repulsed by similar things.

She wanted a partner. That word meant nothing, it seemed, to anyone she knew.

children with a Soul Mate, as generally