“And yet, it was not, not now, she that really counted. Or if she counted (and, oh, gloriously she did) it was for another’s sake. The earth and stars and sun, all that was or will be, existed for his sake. And he was coming. The most dreadful, the most beautiful, the only dread and beauty there is, was coming. The pillars on the far side of the pool flushed with his approach. I cast down my eyes.”
Orual
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963Related quotes
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“He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers”
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“Most people would say that she's beautiful.
-That's because she's been with most people.”
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Mais elle était du monde, où les plus belles choses
Ont le pire destin;
Et Rose, elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses,
L'espace d'un matin.
Letter of condolence to M. Du Perrier on the loss of his daughter, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 680
