# Gordon

- Author: [Edith Templeton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton/gordon

## Quotes

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton/gordon/you-are-like.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton/gordon/it-was-though.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton/gordon/beyond-my-upset.md)