I always took this line in the way Jon described...don't think about the future, focus only on our love.

When I first read W&G I was in high school and the line didn't bother me. But in my most recent reading it drove me nuts. It seemed so contrived. And if it had only been said once it wouldn't matter, but its repetition and Roland remembering it....it got a little out of control. It was like SK thought he really had something with it and wanted to use it. Like when a high school writer re-reads a sentence they just wrote and thinks "now that's a good sentence" and proceeds to follow the pattern.

Another phrase in the series that I think gets repeated because King thought it was a nice phrase is "go then, there are other worlds than these." But this one works for me. I think it carries some resonance.

Maybe I'm just not into the sappy implications of "if you love me."