Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

Hello, Doctor. It's your man.

Xhex: John, she said softty. He paused and looked over his shoulder toward the bed. I love you.” His handsome face tightened in pain, and he rubbed the middle of his chest, as if someone had fisted up his heart and squeezed it dead. And then he turned away. As she hit the confines of her prison… She was screaming at the top of her lungs.

I love you. You are my heart beating outside of my chest.

[Devina] “You know, Adrian, you ever get bored with being a Goody Two-shoes, you could come over to my side.” “Because you have cookies, right.” Those black eyes returned to his own. “And so much more.” “Well, I’m on a diet. Sorry—but thanks for the invite.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.