beatrice✨

"I felt that I was being ridiculous, and mortally injuring a kind man for ever in my madness - but what was friendship to me, what was my whole life compared with my impatience to feel the touch of your lips again, to hear you speak softly close to me? This is how I loved you. I loved you so much, and now that it is all over and done with, I can tell you so. And I believe that if you summoned me from my deathbed, I would suddenly find the strength in myself to get up and go with you."