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I Will Love You Imperfectly, Fully, And In Every Way I Can

"I will kiss you like forgiveness. You will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms will bandage and we will press promises between us like flowers in a book." - Clementine Von Radics
Marisa Donnelly
November 25, 2016
“I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d given up on asking love to come. I think that has to be part of its miracle. This is how we heal. 

I will kiss you like forgiveness. You will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms will bandage and we will press promises between us like flowers in a book. I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat on your skin. I will write novels to the scar of your nose. I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you. And I will not be afraid of your scars. 

I know sometimes it’s still hard to let me see you in all your cracked perfection, but please know: whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap, your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
— Clementine Von Radics, A Mouthful of Forevers
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. 
Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the Earth’s hips 
And our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary. 
Or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity 
Combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills 
Will leave us like a love letter 
In a landfill. 
But whatever 
However 
Whenever this ends I want you to know 
That right now 
I love you forever.”
— Andrea Gibson, How It Ends
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Beginnings, Endings, Passion
“I will endure for you, even when we fall on hard times, even when we struggle. I will not flee or abandon you when we disagree, I will not sleep within foreign arms when I feel hurt. I promise that when I date you, I will fight for you. I will fight for the beauty in which our hearts have felt, and though it will be difficult at times, like worthy things are, I will believe in you – I will believe in us.”
— Bianca Sparacino, This Is How I’ll Date You
Tagged: True Love, real love, Perfect Love
“You asked me to give you something? Well here it is: I'm giving you half of my heart. I know tonight will be hard for you. There will be harder times to come for the both of us. But right now I just want you to know that last night was totally off the charts incredible for me...Even as I write this I feel my heart twinge and my skin tingle. I think about how strangely, wonderfully comfortable I felt with you. All I know is that being with you is amazing.”
— Unknown, Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
Tagged: Lost Love Letters, Love Letters, Post Secret, Post Secret Quotes
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: How To Say I Love You
“What I’m really saying when I say ‘I love you,’ is that I am yours completely and I will always be. I have given you my heart, and I trust that you will take care of it, protect it, and keep it safe, and I promise I’ll do the same for you.”
— Aprille Eclarinal, What I’m Really Saying When I Say, ‘I Love You’
Tagged: How To Say I Love You
“She only gives herself in pieces rare and very few have her in her uninhibited form”
— Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel
Tagged: Relationships, Love Hiding
“I won’t rush our beginning. I will take my time getting to know you piece by piece, layer by layer. I will ask you about all the little things first. I will become your friend. I will listen to your stories and laugh at your jokes; I will tell you tiny bits of who I am, so that we begin to really understand each other. I will be tender, but firm. And I won’t walk away without giving us my all.”
— Marisa Donnelly, If You Let Me In, I Will Love You So Deeply
Tagged: Big Heart, Ability To Love, Girl With A Big Heart, Lover
“I will stand by you. I will support you. I will fight for you. I will be the body that holds yours up when you’ve lost the strength to stand. I will be what you need when you’re broken. I will nurse you back to full strength and I will keep you focused. I promise to keep you from as much pain as possible. And if you must suffer, I will be right next to you, facing the same demons.”
— Marisa Donnelly, If You Let Me In, I Will Love You So Deeply
Tagged: Big Heart, Ability To Love, Girl With A Big Heart, Lover, Wedding Vows
“In this world of superficial love, of temporary love, of surface love, I promise to be real. I promise to be stubborn for us when we consider pulling apart. I promise to choose you, even on our bad days. I promise to believe in us, even when the world leans us towards the direction of giving up. We will be imperfect and loving will be hard, this I know, but I won’t walk away. I will be yours. I will love you so deeply. This I promise.”
— Marisa Donnelly, If You Let Me In, I Will Love You So Deeply
Tagged: Big Heart, Ability To Love, Girl With A Big Heart, Lover
“In spite all my shortcomings, this is my vow to you: I will love you with all my heart. I will love you even when I’m moody; for I may feel happy or sad or mad or extremely emotional but my greatest feeling will always be my love for you.”
— MJ Mariano, I'm Sorry, But I Will Love You Too Much
Tagged: Big Heart, Ability To Love, Girl With A Big Heart, Lover
“If I fall in love with you, I promise to always be the last goodnight kiss, the last text in our conversation, the last voice lingering on the telephone, making sure you hang up first.”
— Marisa Donnelly, I'm Not Afraid To Be The Girl Who Loves More
Tagged: Big Heart, Ability To Love, Girl With A Big Heart, Lover
“I will do my best to try to save you from all the pain, and when I fail, I will still be here, taking the pain with you. I will be beside you for all the mornings and the nights—and the dusks and dawns in between—looking at your face because I know in my heart that it’s the only thing in the world that I could look at without worrying about a thing.”
— MJ Mariano, I'm Sorry, But I Will Love You Too Much
Tagged: Big Heart, Ability To Love, Girl With A Big Heart, Lover
“I’m not afraid to love you more because love is too beautiful to set rules and boundaries, to put restrictions on when and where and how much.

I’m not afraid to love you more because there’s no definition that can capture what it means to hold someone else’s heart in your hands, to feel their body under your fingertips, pulsing and terrifying and amazing and alive. There’s no words for the way two people’s eyes see into each other’s souls, for how they can suddenly mesh their lives and their happiness into one another so fully, so fearlessly, so openly, so incredibly.”
— Marisa Donnelly, I'm Not Afraid To Be The Girl Who Loves More
Tagged: Big Heart, Ability To Love, Girl With A Big Heart, Lover
“I want you to know that my heart is yours to take if yours can’t work as hard anymore. And I want you to know, that I will do everything in my power to hold your heart in the light when you can’t find your flashlight in the dark. And I will kiss your heart over and over so you can feel my love being washed all over you.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, This Is How I Promise To Take Care Of Your Heart
Tagged: Dear Future Lover, Dear Future Boyfriend, Future Lover, Open Letter, Love, Love Letter
“I promise to make your heart beat faster and to fill your stomach with butterflies even after thirty years of being together.
I promise to clean up all the scars and cuts that other women have put on it. I will bandage up the memories from broken promises and wasted tears. I won’t let the broken past that you rarely talk about weigh you down anymore. I will lift all of that weight off of you, so you don’t have to be haunted anymore. And I promise to love your new heart just as much as the one that was full of ghosts.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, This Is How I Promise To Take Care Of Your Heart
Tagged: Dear Future Lover, Dear Future Boyfriend, Future Lover, Open Letter, Love, Love Letter
“I promise to dance with you in our living room, chest to chest, and kiss you softly. And then I will feel your heart race when I chase you to the bedroom and hear it beat boldly. I will make sure to make your heart race with anticipation, lust and love for all the years of you and me. I promise to keep your heart safe in my arms.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, This Is How I Promise To Take Care Of Your Heart
Tagged: Dear Future Lover, Dear Future Boyfriend, Future Lover, Open Letter, Love, Love Letter
“I promise to be gentle with your heart. Your past left you sensitive and your lungs, weakened by people who ran over your every word. So, I promise to listen to you when you are angry. I promise to shower you with kind words, and never make you wish you never had met me.

I will lift you up, and hold your hand when you are reaching for nothing but air.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, This Is How I Promise To Take Care Of Your Heart
Tagged: Dear Future Lover, Dear Future Boyfriend, Future Lover, Open Letter, Love, Love Letter