# Quote — Edith Templeton, Gordon

> 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.

- Author: [Edith Templeton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton.md)
- Book: [Gordon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton/gordon.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_Templeton#Gordon_(1966)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edith-templeton/gordon/beyond-my-upset

## More from this book

> 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)