A Way With Words - II

She: "... what is love?"
He sighed deeply as he negotiated the turn, "Love... it's just a convenient word to express my feelings for you... it's convenient because when I say 'I love you', I am saying that I can't live without you, because what I feel for you defines me.. I don't know where you begin and I end.. that I can't think of a life without you and that every breath I take is a paean to what I feel for you... Love is just a word that helps me put entire sentences in a word. I might as well say 'I XYZ you' and it would mean the same.."