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This story intrigues me because right from the start it talks about Brenau University, which supposedly holds the Dare Stones, although many believe it to be an elaborate historical hoax. I worked at Breanu University for several years, so this is a neat beginning to the tale for me.

I'm finding that with Elizabeth Goudge I'm a bit of a mood reader. Her writing is always gorgeous, but there are times when I'm a bit too impatient for it! Shame on me. :-) I'm taking the last book in this trilogy slowly and it's worth it.

Well, it's good to know that bratty, spoiled children haven't changed a bit in 180 years! 😂

"There are many ways to throw a life away, and most of them involve continuing to live." -- p.15

"I sometimes wonder at such as you, who believe in all the glories of unseen worlds, and yet are so eager and so worldly in all your doings upon this shabby commonplace earth."-- Roland Lansdell

"All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are only efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all only terms for greater or less degrees of freedom." p.1371

Halfway through!

"A lonely heart will cleave to any solid thing that brushes against it, poor unwanted burr."-- p.231
Grant is a beautiful writer. For some reason this sentence made me tear up.

Fascinating, so far.

"I am persuaded that half the misery in the world comes of straining after happiness." -- p.145
This book is slow going, but I'm really enjoying it.

I'm halfway through this book. Does anyone else think Livia’s obsession with her 40th birthday party is slightly psychotic? At one point she says that she has been planning this party for 20 years. Really? When you were twenty years old you were thinking about your 40th birthday party? There are other improbable aspects to this novel as well, but for some reason I'm hung up on this, lol.