I have to admit, I scanned about half of this book and used Shmoop to clarify what I didn't understand. Not that the book isn't accessible or hard to read, its just long and dense. I like to read several books at a time, and its not my preference to sit down and read one long novel for a week. So nothing against The Moonstone! It was a great story. Recommended if you want to pretend to be a detective and slog through a bunch of notes to figure out a truly mind-blowing mystery.

Quotes:
When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it. (Betteredge, page 11)

Lord bless us! it was a Diamond! As large, or nearly, as a plover's egg! The light that streamed from it was like the light of the harvest moon. When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else. .. We set it in the sun, and then shut the light out of the room, and it shone awfully out of the depths of its own brightness, with a moony gleam, in the dark. (page 63)