You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.

-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?