Lena Donan

“Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.”
― Jessica Fellowes, The World of Downton Abbey

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”
― Jim Harrison

“I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King

“What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?”
She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at him. “It’s a shame really. I had nothing else to read. I left all my Barbie comic books at home.”
― Jill Barnett, The Days of Summer