"I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."
"I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution."
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Source: The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere). Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.
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