Quotes from Rhys Bowen

that a time of stress and tragedy takes away all but the will to survive.

had come to help. He just

When I awoke the next morning I looked out at a landscape blotted out by mist and the first thought that came to me was, I wonder who is going to be killed today?

As my dear Baroness Lehzen used to say, 'Enough is as good as a feast.

When the world has gone mad, we must help each other when we can. Most of my neighbours are good and share what little they have.

There's nothing wrong with hunting, in its place. But there are many preferable occupations when in the presence of a young woman.

A body? Of a person? Dead?" "Bodies usually are. And this one was very dead indeed.

How much can happen in so short a time,

The baroness swept into the room like an avenging black angel, her cape streaming out behind her. If looks could kill, we'd have been sprawled on the carpet.

I will not be bullied or dictated to. I'm not a child any more, and I'm prepared to make my own way and my own mistakes if necessary.

There is nothing worse than speeches about someone you don't know, made by someone you don't know.

The only stories worth reading have happy endings.

But it was that core group of popular girls who moved in a pack, like wolves, and loved to pick on anyone weaker than them who made it quite clear that I did not belong.

He was the sort of languid and elegant young man one would expect to find at a country house party, playing croquet with Bertie Wooster. Frightfully good fun, but not too many brains.

None of this nine or ten nonsense and I don't care what the parish priest says. There will soon be so many people on this planet that it will be standing room only.

Experience makes one come to terms with life, to be at one with the mind and the heart. And most people are suffering in some way.

The scent of new-mown grass wafted on the warm breeze, mingled with the smoke of leaves burning on a distant bonfire. The scents and sounds of an English summer Sunday, unchanged for centuries, Ben thought. Polite

All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

Aren't you going a little overboard?" I asked, picturing a day ahead of me trying to find these items in a town I didn't know. "Nonsense, darling. What's the point of a party if you don't go overboard." I sat on the sofa watching her, admiring her. Not only was she beautiful, but she had a wonderful way of shaking off life's little problems, like water off a duck's back. Nothing seemed to upset her.

In case you haven't noticed, the men get all the plum jobs here, and the women are stuck with the clerical stuff, even though they are often better qualified." "I

Tiny finger sandwiches, biscuits and cakes, grapes and tangerines and of course my scones with jam and cream. Mr Phelps and Jimmy came to help me as I made shortbreads, ginger biscuits from Germany that were a favourite of the queen, macaroons and lemon curd tarts. At the last minute, we prepared cucumber, egg and cress, and smoked salmon sandwiches, wrapping them immediately into damp linen napkins to keep them moist. Flasks of tea were prepared.

Mummy always had French maids, and Daddy always chased them. It kept their marriage happy.

Hanni, I'm going to have to watch you carefully. You may break a lot of hearts in London." "What am I to break?" she asked with that lovely innocent smile. "Hearts. Lots of Englishmen will fall in love with you." "I hope so," she said. "I'm gonna be hot sexy dame. You can give me tips.

I realised that everyone present resented the loss of the Hall as much as my father had done. It represented the passing of an old way of life, of the security of knowing one's place. I found it very touching.