Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
But like everything else, love changed.
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.