The Paris Soulmate Quotes

“You don’t get it just like you don’t get yourself. Sometimes the simple beauty of a woman is more powerful than anything. It doesn’t need to be a massive painting, it doesn’t need to be filled with a lot of things going on in the canvas space, and it doesn’t need a lot of fancy art techniques. It’s just her. Her beauty. Her in her raw form with those intangible attributes that drove men crazy. Those intangible qualities that could topple kings. Those made Leonardo paint her. Those are still bringing people here to look at her and ponder over. It’s real love. An unfiltered and non-romanticized version. It’s real because it doesn’t need to be anything more. Just like you don’t need to be anything more. You’ve got those intangible qualities to bring millions of people to visit a museum to see you every year. You in your raw form have that power. People don’t forget someone like that. They’re etched into your bones and molded into your core.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“I really love you, Lola. Unconditionally,” I said as I started to cry again.

“I really love you too. Unconditionally,” she replied.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“She was beautifully broken, and he could tell it was her faith that made her whole. It was her faith that made the brokenness beautiful.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Soulmates don’t come to us as we expect them to. They don’t come in the package we expect, they don’t come the way we expect, and they certainly don’t come when we expect.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Colin had just accomplished the impossible. He had broken down the walls around my heart. The walls I had been building far before my illnesses but had grown even sturdier since my diagnosis. And for the first time, it felt like I'd been set free.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“He was perfect in my eyes. Not a fairy tale kind of perfection that could never be measured up to, but a perfection that was created by him being himself. Even his flaws seemed to fill out my being.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“I’m not going anywhere with you and your Mr. Darcy accent.”. . .“Wow, I’ve hit a nerve. Mr. Darcy, huh?” he chimed. “So the hopeless romantic bit is accurate.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“To know unconditional love in so many forms was to truly live.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“I had fought for this moment. I had fought for my life, what health I had, the ability to live my life, and the ability to love. And he was worth every moment I had fought so hard for. I never could have imagined what I was truly fighting so desperately for. But there he sat.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“He not only completed me, but he showed me how to complete myself.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“That was my favorite thing about Paris: it was well lived. The architecture spoke of the life it had seen through its curves and textures.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“But the morning was like a cold ice bath for the dreamer. And it was certainly waking me from my dreamy, kaleidoscope-colored glasses.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Absolutely perfect, Mona Lisa,” he said and pulled me by my waist back inside.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“It was like I was sick with a new disorder and the diagnosis was Colin.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“I was doing perfectly fine. I’m perfectly fine. I will make it to Paris on my own, unchaperoned and without assistance.”

“Well, you will need the pilot and the plane. Probably the crew as well,” he said nonchalantly.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Is this 12B? This is going to be fun!” The British accent cut through the air like a wire cutter through clay. It sliced into me and my peaceful serenity that I had created.

“No, no, no, no,” I said, a little too emphatically. 

“No, this isn’t 12B or no, this isn't going to be fun?”

“You’ve got to be kidding me!”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“He looked at her, witnessing all the disbelief written across her face. He loathed what was written there. Every unspoken word struck him with an ache.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Usually there was a sense of warning like I needed to flee, a primal part of me always subconsciously knowing I wasn’t safe, that I did indeed need to guard myself and my emotions. But here in his arms I felt like none of those demons could reach me, like I was finally able to indulge in the warm sun after an extensive stay in the dark, cold underground.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“He would have gladly given her anything she named, but he was completely certain all she wanted was him.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Suddenly, all of his charisma crashed into all of my fears.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Apparently, it wasn't every day there was such a spectacle in the Louvre. Funny, I thought the Mona Lisa would have brought it out in them. It sure did in me.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“There was a stare down between us that seemed to last for a small infinity. Like a lifetime of understanding was being lived in it.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“That’s not baggage. It’s not acceptable to call your illnesses baggage.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Moon River” started to flow gracefully out of the violin. The notes crept over to me and danced along the goosebumps on my skin.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“You’re the complete package. Like something out of a black and white film. Something rare and special that shouldn’t exist outside the silver screen. Yet somehow, here you are.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“I knew he was too in tune with the rhythm of my heart to be fooled.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“He was the real deal, like my very own Clark Gable character from a classic film. But, unlike Mr. Gable, Colin really did “give a–”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Are you seriously going to kiss her for the first time on an airplane? That has to be the most unromantic thing I’ve ever heard. Even Humphrey knew to kiss Bergman outside the plane. You need to follow the classics like Casablanca.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Great. Just flipping fantastic. He’s like a warm English fire after being caught in the rain, and I’m like a hillbilly tractor stuck in the mud.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“When he touched my hand for the first time, it was like a piece of my heart went to him. And I'm afraid if we keep going, he’s going to collect all the pieces.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate