Edith Templeton

Edith Templeton (7 April 1916 – 12 June 2006) was a Bohemian novelist, who also wrote under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook.

Quotes

• Women are like teeth. Some tremble and never fall and some fall and never tremble.
  • The Surprise of Cremona (1954), sec. 5, "Urbino". Reported in The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations (Viking, 1993) p. 367

• My mind sometimes wanders. Do unto others and so on. Very nice again, but what if others have a different taste from yours? I don't remember who said it.
  • Summer in the Country (London: The Hogarth Press, 1985) p. 143

Gordon (1966)

The New English Library

• 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.
  • Ch. 3

• 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.
  • Ch. 3

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