Quote for Reading Response 2 - Battle Of The Sexes

"In a dream she took that kiss. In a dream of dizziness and confusion she seemed to feel the iron-cold lips stirring under hers. And through the union of that kiss- warm-blooded woman with image of nameless stone-through the meeting of their mouths something entered into her very soul; something cold and stunning; something alien beyond any words. It lay upon her shuddering soul like some frigid weight from the void, a bubble holding something unthinkably alien and dreadful. She could feel the heaviness of it upon some intangible part of her that shrank from the touch. It was like the weight of remorse or despair, only far colder and stranger-and-somehow-more ominous, as if this weight were but the egg from which things might hatch too dreadful to put even into thoughts."

- God's Black Kiss, pg. 107 p. 3