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This is enough to make even Dorothy throw those beautiful red shoes away and live forever in Oz.
“I'm an addict, and you are my. Fucking. Perfect. Drug,”
It's a kiss full of a promise, one that I’m scared to believe in.
Being true to his word, he cleans me up, lavishing me with all of the care and attention as if I am in fact the princess he calls me and he is my very own dark knight.
“‘If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.’”
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.’”
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?’”
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.’” “‘O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.’”
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake,’”
“Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged,”
Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.’”
‘People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf’.
“I should walk away and leave you right now,” he growls out, his grip tightening painfully. “But I can’t, Lilly, I can’t leave the only light to have ever come into my life. I’m not strong enough, and I’m too selfish to deny myself.”
“When I think about you, I burn inside, Princess. My entire being, everything I am and ever could be is yours.” I gasp, my eyes filling with moisture, but before I can say anything he continues. “I love you, Lilly Darling, and I will love you until I draw my last breath and my soul descends into the depths below. And when the stars fall from the sky, and the earth shatters into a million pieces my love for you will be in every fucking atom of the galaxy.”
“‘I love thee with a love that shall not die, till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old,’”
