The Robots of Dawn (Robot #3)

by Isaac Asimov

Baley said, sharply, “Nevertheless bound by friendship. Do not, for your own sake, test the force of our—” Now it was he who paused and, as though to his own surprise, completed the sentence impossibly, “—love.”

“Gladia, don’t make yourself unhappy. Something wonderful happened between us, but there are other wonderful things that will happen to you, too—many of them, of all kinds, but not the same wonderful thing. Look forward to the others.”