# Edith Templeton

- Quotes: 3
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton

## Books

- [Gordon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton/gordon.md) — 3 quotes

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> You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared.

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> It was though I had been in possession of one of those small shells with Japanese flowers which are sold at street corners. When plunged into a bowl of water, the tightly sealed shell opens and the flat, dry, coiled-up, insignificant shreds of paper contained within float out and unfold their variegated and unsuspected splendour; with Gordon I had found my bowl of water.

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> Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to the one he made me feel when forcing me to surrender to his virility. No one else before him had given me this gratification, but I realised now that the longing to be violated, body and soul, must have always been inside me.

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