_{[If only he'd voiced this out loud-- she'd have set him straight so firmly he wouldn't even know what hit him. ... But he hadn't, so she didn't know.]}

It's not as different as you think.

There's a lot of different kinds of love. Caring for somebody isn't so far away.

_{[She trails off there, possibly thinking about just what he meant by that. ... The truth was, she sort of understood.]}

... The other thing about it is that it's not easy to understand, either.

_{[Shrugging her shoulders, she looked over at Liquid, expression solemn.]}

Not everyone's just looking for their own gain when they want to be close to somebody.

... A lot of people are... but not everybody. Not Otacon.