adaestra: I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I never see you again, an
adaestra:I will loveyou if I never see you again, and I will love you if I never see you again, andI will love you if I see you every Tuesday. (…) Iwill love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love thelifeboat, and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the spermwhale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. I will love you as a drawer loves asecret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secretloves to make a person gasp… I will love you until all such compartments arediscovered and opened, and all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. Iwill love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until everyanagram and egg has been unscrambled. I will love you until every fire isextinguished and rebuilt from the handsomest and most susceptible of woods. Iwill love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple. I willlove you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where oncewe were so close… I will love you until your face is fogged by distantmemory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love youif you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else–and i willlove you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you hadmarried me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on itswicked way. For Beatrice – A Series of Unfortunate Events (dedications, pt. iii/xiv) + The Beatrice Letters -- source link
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