In this entry, we see a reversal of the usual trend, inasmuch as it is the Lewis quote which is taken from an overlooked masterpiece, while its precursor in MacDonald belongs to a (relatively) well known fairy tale. Psyche's expression of longing in Till We Have Faces, which Lewis considered the high point of all his fiction, has clear echoes of this passage in MacDonald's The Golden Key, wherein Mossy and Tangle, also at their happiest, yearn for the "country whence the shadows come."
“It was when I was happiest that I longed most... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
“But some of the things which pleased them most they never knew how to describe...After sitting for a while, each, looking up, saw the other in tears: they were each longing after the country whence the shadows came.”
