“Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.”
“Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.”
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”
“i meant what i said, and i said what i meant.”
“Later that evening in my diary, I wrote: I was exagerrating when I said I thought you hated the piece. What I meant to say was: I thought you hated me. I was hoping you’d persuade me of the opposite—and you did, for a while. Why won’t I believe it tomorrow morning?”