"I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."
"Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you."
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Source: Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins
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