Twentysix Quotes

“Erotic submission is a limit-experience, beyond which something else comes into play, something not quite human.”
― Jonathan Kemp, Twentysix

“Each moment is as empty or as full as a mirror.”
― Jonathan Kemp, Twentysix

“Wrap me in colours that cannot be described, patterns that change with each movement like a kaleidoscope. Give me a world beyond what is here. Give me a body in flames dancing in a place where there is no shame. Give me lies, if you like, but take me there, to that other world where language can only play games of hide and seek with what is really going on.”
― Jonathan Kemp, Twentysix

“The difference between what we want and what we are able to do emerges with the slow, poisonous crawl of grief. The hunger doesn’t abate, it seems; it only eats you up.”
― Jonathan Kemp, Twentysix

“She builds such walls around herself that no one could ever scale them. But I have also seen that moment when who she wants to be and who she appears to be coincide so gloriously that it is enough to make you trust in saints.”
― Jonathan Kemp, Twentysix