you said I love you. why is it the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 34;I love you 34; is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did , yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body.