# Quote — Tanith Lee, Drinking Sapphire Wine

> It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [Drinking Sapphire Wine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine.md)
- Page: 60
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee#Drinking_Sapphire_Wine_(1977)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/it-was-therefore

## More from this book

> Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.

p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/somewhere-in-me-was.md)

> I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.

p. 128 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/i-see-you.md)

> “Well now,” he said, “was I as good as you were when you were me?”

p. 152 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/well-now-he-said.md)