"I love you,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I..."

““I love you,” I said.
She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.”
“Why not?” I said.
“It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but ‘I love you, too’?””

- Kurt Vonnegut