The lover showers kisses on the face of the beloved, like petals falling in a summer rain. The lover seeks to open the beloved's lips like a tight-furled bud. The beloved's lips open like a blossom to admit the lover.
↑Kushiel's Dart,
"Chapter 10" — "I do not ask you to offer carnal instruction, Cecilie; merely to teach. All the great texts... the Ecstatica, the Journey of Naamah, the Trois Milles Joies..."