Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.


Chapter 6, section 5 (p. 449) - Quotations and text from the Lyonesse Trilogy - The Green Pearl (1985)


Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.