[quotes] Kink Stories - edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell 2021

  

"But they also recognize that all experience is embodied, and that bodies are always situated in the realities of history and culture, the crucibles of class, race, nationhood, and gender. By taking kink seriously, these stories recognize how the questions raised in intimate, kinky encounters - questions of power, agency, identity - can help us to interrogate and begin to re-script the larger cultural narratives that surround us."

"What could be off about this? So he kissed the top of her head, the white pure line of her part, and hoped the touch would say what needed to be said, whatever it was. He was so tired, he realized, of not knowing that he was supposed to do or say."

"His life at the time was a series of minor discomforts that accumulated like grit in a socket until rotation was no longer possible."

"They were committing a sacred act, sewing him back into his body. Omar imaged his ancestors engaged in this same straining, this same rhythm, generations of lovers reaching into that same hot center."

"This must be love because I feel myself expanding in his gaze."