It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the inevitable connection and destiny between two people despite their initial ignorance of each other.
In this quote, Robert James Waller beautifully illustrates the notion of destined love, suggesting that two individuals may unconsciously be drawn to each other over time. He uses the imagery of solitary birds navigating through vast prairies to convey how, although they were unaware of each other's presence, their paths were always meant to converge, highlighting the profound and often mysterious nature of human relationships.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a wedding to emphasize the couple's destined connection.
This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
A ministering angel shall my sister be.
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.
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