I love you, Eliza, 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'?
Slapstick or Lonesome No More!: A Novel (ed. Dial Press, 2010) - ISBN: 9780440339090