“You over-explain every emotion,” she’d said, stealing an olive. “Your heroes don’t fall in love. They announce it. Like a press release.”
Rosella uses a "pressure vessel" metaphor. She suggests that each breath tightens a coil of pleasure in the lower belly. Her voice accelerates. The suggestions become shorter, sharper, more imperative. “You over-explain every emotion
Think of the sweeping grandeur of Titanic or Pride & Prejudice . ” she’d said