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adaestra:

I will love
you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I never see you again, and
I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. (…) I
will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the
lifeboat, and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm
whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. I will love you as a drawer loves a
secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret
loves to make a person gasp… I will love you until all such compartments are
discovered and opened, and all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I
will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every
anagram and egg has been unscrambled. I will love you until every fire is
extinguished and rebuilt from the handsomest and most susceptible of woods. I
will love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple. I will
love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once
we were so close… I will love you until your face is fogged by distant
memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you
if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else–and i will
love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had
married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its
wicked way. 

For Beatrice –  A Series of Unfortunate Events (dedications, pt. iii/xiv) + 

The Beatrice Letters