Quotes / False Soulmate

Film - Animated

Emily: I can't...
Victor: What's wrong?
Emily: This is wrong. I was a bride. My dreams were taken from me. Well, now...now I've stolen them from someone else. I love you, Victor...but you're not mine.

— Corpse Bride

Olaf: So, where's Hans? What happened to your kiss?
Anna: I was wrong about him. It wasn't true love.

— Frozen (2013)

Susan: Look, I know this is a little weird. Okay, it's a lot weird. But we'll figure it out. I know that together we can find a way to get me back to normal.
Derek: Susan, try and look at this from my perspective. I have an audience that depends on me for news, weather, sports and heartwarming fluff pieces. So you expect me to put all that on hold while you try to undo this thing that happened to you? That I had absolutely nothing to do with?
Susan: Yes. That's exactly what I expect. What about the life we always talked about? Don't you still want that?
Derek: Of course. I just don't see how I can have that with you.

— Monsters vs. Aliens

Princess Fiona: The battle is won. You may remove your helmet, good sir knight.
Shrek: Er, no.
Fiona: Why not?
Shrek: I...I have helmet hair.
Fiona: Please. I wouldst look upon the face of my rescuer.
Shrek: Oh no you wouldn't...edst.
Fiona: But...how will you kiss me?
Shrek: What?! That wasn't in the job description.
Donkey: Maybe it's a perk?
Fiona: No, it's destiny. You must know how it goes. A princess locked in a tower and beset by a dragon is rescued by a brave knight...and then they share true love's first kiss.
Donkey: With Shrek? You think...wait, wait, you think that Shrek is your true love?
Fiona: Well, yes.
[Shrek and Donkey burst into laughter]
Donkey: You think Shrek is your true love!
Fiona: What is so funny?
Shrek: Let's just say I’m not your type, okay? ^note  As it turns out, he actually is

— Shrek

Film - Live Action

"Stefan and Maleficent became the most unlikely of friends. And for a time it seemed as if - in them at least - the old hatred between men and fairies had been forgotten. As it will, friendship slowly turned into something else. And on her sixteenth birthday, Stefan gave Maleficent a gift. He told her it was true love's kiss. But it was not to be."

— Narrator, Maleficent

Literature

On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

— Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games

'Gillian's hands tightened on his. Their eyes were locked together. It was as if they were getting closer, although neither of them moved physically. And then it was all happening, what had started to happen at least twice before. Feelings so sweet and strong she could hardly bear it. Strange recognition, unexpected belonging...impossible knowing...Gillian's eyes seemed to shut of their own accord. And then somehow they were kissing. She felt the warmth of David's lips. And everything was warm and wonderful...but there was more. It was as if the normal veil that separated two people had melted. Gillian felt a shock of revelation. This was what it meant, what Angel had spoken to her about. She knew it intuitively even though she'd never spoken the word before. Soulmates. She'd found her's. The one love for her on this earth. The person she was meant to be with, that no one could keep her from. And it wasn't Angel. It was David.

— Night World, Dark Angel

Tristifer: You and I were meant to be, Asha. I have always known you would be my wife, and the mother of my sons.
Asha: Take your hand away or you won't live long enough to breed a son. Now. You want a woman, well and good. I'll put one in your bed tonight. Pretend she's me, if that will give you pleasure, but do not presume to grab at me again. I am your queen, not your wife. Remember that.

— A Song of Ice and Fire, A Feast for Crows

Robert Baratheon: [Cersei] tried to forbid me to fight in the melee. She's sulking in the castle now, damn her. Your sister would never have shamed me like that.

Eddard Stark: You never knew Lyanna as I did, Robert, [...] You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath. She would have told you that you have no business in the melee.

— A Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones

Live Action TV

Borch: I can see why Geralt didn't want to lose you.
Yennefer: What does that mean?
Geralt: In Rinde. The djinn.
Yennefer: That's why we can't escape each other. Why I feel this way inside.

Geralt: No...
Yennefer: It's not because of anything real, or true. You made a wish. It's magic.
Geralt: It's real, Yen.
Yennefer: How could we ever know?

— The Witcher (2019), "Rare Species"

Music

I finally understand
The love you had for me was only just second-hand
Dancing the night away
And in the morning, I will let you go

— Nyanners, "Foolish Heart"

I'm just playing games, I know that's plastic love
Dance to the plastic beat, another morning comes

— Mariya Takeuchi, "Plastic Love"

Stranger, that's all I see
When I look into your eyes
A soulmate who wasn't meant to be
Stranger, who knows all my secrets
Can pull me apart and break my heart
A soulmate who wasn't meant to be

— Jessica Benko, "A Soulmate Who Wasn't Meant to Be"

Webcomic

Argus: I love you!
Unnamed Girl: No, you don't, Argus. (sigh) You... you think you do. But you're just clinging to me. And clinging to this childlish idea of... of chivalry. Of romance... And the world doesn't live like that. I have to think of my future.
Argus: But that's why I'm saying we should marry! We shouldn't have to be hiding behind closed doors. I'm not ashamed of us...
Girl: Maybe you should. You know a marriage between us never will be allowed. And I don't want to marry you. This was... just fun, Argus. What we had was nice, but it can't go on. Not when the king could have me.
Argus: Y... what?! You mean to say that you?
Girl: The king treats his mistresses well. It's an opportunity and a honor.
Argus: HE'S MY FATHER!
Girl: He's the KING!
Argus: I... I don't... just... Please don't do this.
Girl: Don't beg me, Argus! Have a little dignity! This is pathetic! Just look at yourself. What are you? You're un unacknowledged bastard in line for NOTHING. You live in your head. You're forever beset by melancholy. You're a grown man. And yet, you wept like a child over the death of that hound...
Argus: At least Aornis was FAITHFUL!
Girl: Scorn me if you will, but at least I'm being honest.
Argus: HONEST?!
Girl: We both know our hearts just aren't in this.
Argus: I'd much prefer the faithful heart of a beast to a deceitful human heart full of that sort of "honesty"!

— Megan Kearney's Beauty and the Beast

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