when sleeping at last said “I want to love you but I don’t know how” and when bojack horseman said “I do love you, by the way. I mean as much as I’m capable of loving anyone. which is never enough” and when william faulkner said “perhaps they were right putting love into books. perhaps it could not live anywhere else” and when lorde said “my mother’s love is choking me” and when siken said “if you love me, henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand” and when maggie stiefvater said “need was adam’s baseline, his resting pulse. love was a privilege” and when benjamin alire sáenz said “but love was always something heavy for me. something I had to carry”
when lemony snicket wrote ‘i will love you if i never see you again, and i will love you if i see you every tuesday’
and when lemony snicket wrote ‘i will love you as the starfish loves a coral reef and as kudzu loves trees, even if the oceans turn to sawdust and the trees fall in the forest without anyone around to hear them’
and when lemony snicket wrote 'i will love you as the doctor loves his sickest patient and a lake loves its thirstiest swimmer’
and when lemony snicket wrote 'i will love you as a taxi loves the muddy splash of a puddle and as a library loves the patient tick of a clock’
and when lemony snicket wrote 'i will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes’
and when lemony snicket wrote 'i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong’
and when lemony snicket wrote 'i will love you as a battlefield loves young men and as peppermints love your allergies’
and when lemony snicket wrote 'i will love you until every fire is extinguished and until every home is rebuilt form the handsomest and most susceptible of woods’
and when lemony snicket wrote 'i will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how i discover what happens to you’
