‘and i you’ is undoubtedly the most perfect, most romantic respond to an i love you.
when virginia woolf said “in case you ever foolishly forget: i am never not thinking of you” and when oscar wilde said “i think of you all day long, and miss your grace, your boyish beauty, the bright sword-play of your wit, the delicate fancy of your genius, so surprising always in its sudden swallow-flights towards north and south, towards sun and moon — and, above all, yourself.”
Finally, in a low whisper, he said, “I think I might be a terrible person.” For a split second I believed him – I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.
– Miranda July