Donna Bowen

“Mary: “Don’t be spiky, when I only want what you want – for you and Tony to walk into the sunset together.”
Mabel: “Then why turn up looking like a cross between a Vogue fashion plate and a case of dynamite?”
Mary: “Well, I can’t make it too easy for him.”
― Julian Fellowes

“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“How little Americans know when they disparage acquaintanceship in favour of real, true friendship. It is in acquaintanceship, bringing wiht it as it does delicious dinners, comfortable weekends, gossip shared in picturesque surroundings, but no real intimacy, no responsibility, that the greatest charm of social intercourse lies.”
― Julian Fellowes

“I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister