The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most." ~ Hardy Cates

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

These impossible women! How they do get around us!

A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife." -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent