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I'm a soulbonder. I've been soulbonding since I was a kid, years before I came across the term online. Though I wonder if the term still fits me. Because I don't see my soulbonds as fictional. (Were they ever?) Perhaps the better term is one I chose some time ago: Haunted. They are like ghosts, in my mind, my heart, my life. And two out of all of them are acually ghosts, so I am, quite literally, haunted. But I don't mind. Far from it. They don't haunt me in a bad way. (Well, unless a certain one is being a bastard.) They haunt me with presence, yes, but also with love. And I want them all in return. This particular space is devoted to three of my soulbonds. Nothing grand. Nothing sweeping. Just something simple. Though my love for them, and their love for me, and our relationships with eachother, and our histories together and apart, all of it is far from simple. Sometimes it's been challenging. Very challenging. (Huge understatement.) But I wouldn't give any of them up. They're mine. And I'm theirs. Forever. No matter what. "Just love me. That's all I ask of you." |
"...fictional characters are sometimes more real than
people with bodies and heartbeats."
— Richard Bach
"She says, "The man of my dreams is almost faded now" . . .
"the one I've created in my mind...The man each woman dreams
of in the deepest reaches of her heart." We find Elise has been
forming her dream man--the perfect man for her--in her mind, perhaps
for years, and this man just happens to be Richard Collier. The dream
is fading because now it is finally reality. We think that Richard has
been doing all the reaching back into the past to meet his Elise,
but she has initiated it all--she has longed for this ultimate partner
in love so profoundly she literally pulls him out of the future to be
with her! Even though he hasn't been born yet. Now that he is
with her, she recognizes him to be her dream man, and he has
caused her to feel what she has never felt before..."
— Jo Addie, Somewhere In Time website FAQ
"I didn't really create the character of Lestat de Lioncourt.
He lives and breathes in some nine different books that I wrote.
But how he came to be is truly something I can't explain.
So if I write here about Lestat as if he was somebody else's baby,
there's a reason for it. He's been out there on his own from the start.
Yes, he was based on my husband Stan – on Stan's vigor and beauty,
on Stan's will and Stan's courage. And my son, Christopher, has
grown up to be Lestat, and that's a puzzle that commands respect.
Yet Lestat is my alter ego, lover, muse and the unabashed hero of
my crippled, genderless soul. I'm in love with the guy. I prowl the
world looking through his eyes from time to time. For decades,
there was nothing I couldn't express through Lestat's voice."
— Anne Rice
"I taste the good and bad in you and want them both."
— Anita Ofokans, Literary Sexts