The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who li — Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who li — Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who li — Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who li — Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who li — Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss
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The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

— Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss
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