“ I don't think I fully appreciated how relaxing it is having someone I can be really mean to. It's going to be so hard being nice all the time. Fiona Wood
“ Never listen to fools who dis as being a story about a girl who gets her mean man. This is a character who gets what she wants and lives on her own terms by having moral fortitude, intelligence, cour… Fiona Wood
“ Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode. Fiona Wood
“ ... consider the meaning of these images. Every time you're working with them, ask yourself: what do they mean? And, even more important, what do they mean to me? The more specific and personal someth… Fiona Wood
“ REVISITING THE LIST1. Kiss EstelleOkay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. And that's withought her knowing I've read her diaries. Unless we somehow fall over, exactly aligned, lip to lip,… Fiona Wood
“ How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking? Fiona Wood
“ We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits the tastebuds. ‘It’s pesto,… Fiona Wood
“ Vân Uoc decided that she too would get to know the book inside out. And something miraculous happened when they were about a quarter of the way through reading it. After weeks of ploughing and hesitat… Fiona Wood
“ She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under Fiona Wood
“ Van Uoc felt the stab of a sad truth: she and her mother would never be as close as her mother and grandmother had been.Her mother got up, stretched her tidy, graceful frame and headed for the kitchen… Fiona Wood
