I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.

Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.

And then, well . . . He might have slept for a bit. He rather hoped he was sleeping, because he was quite certain he’d seen a six-foot rabbit hopping through his bedchamber, and if that wasn’t a dream, they were all in very big trouble. Although really, it wasn’t the rabbit that was so dangerous as much as the giant carrot he was swinging about like a mace. That carrot would feed an entire village.