Status Updates From Kilcaraig

I really don’t care for it.

Is this castle on Mull the one the author used in her story? http://www.glengormcastle.co.uk/?page...

She had come here to get away from it all, and in two weeks it was catching up with her.

Instant coffee! We're in the 60s now.

She was fiddling with the knobs on the television set.

Who remembers then the tv's had knobs?

She wanted a baby, but she didn't want Robert's baby.

What sort of end will there be to the beginning that's happened today?

If she could keep him happy, it would be through lies.

Money doesn't always buy happiness.

What was done was done, and all would be well as long as the silly child never allowed herself to fall in love.

The sun did not shine on Grania's wedding day.

Note to self: check the library catalog prior to ordering any used book and save $4. Argh.

These people were the oddest mixture of elegance and barbarism that he had ever come across.

"Catriona, curled up in her chair, sucked a pencil and tried to sound business-like, while the man wrote things on his order form and thought how devastatingly pretty she was, and how odd her husband must be to neglect her so."

"A dream honeymoon for a girl who had been told all her life that she was a nuisance, a bother, a disappointment, not of interest to anyone at all. She knew that she had been a wonderful bride, not just a girl in a beautiful dress and veil. She had come, like shooting star, into the atmosphere that would forever be her own."

Loving this!! I read it in the morning before work, and at night when I come home--divine!

"Mr Dutton, if you pick up any fleas, wait until they're gorged, then catch them with a piece of soap," Grania smiled at him delightfully." "Pay no attention. Our dogs have no fleas. I expect it's a tick," Marian said. He was left to puzzle over this sinister remark, afraid to ask questions in case the explanation proved to be too revolting to contemplate.