Fiona Wood QUOTES

4 " 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. Van Uoc wanted to be able to offer her some comfort, but what could she say? Her mother was right. The two of them represented an irreconcilable cultural split. Distance between them was inevitable. "

― Fiona Wood , Cloudwish (The Six Impossiverse #3)

5 " 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 hesitating, something clicked; she stopped stumbling over the unknown words and long sentences. Words magically started to reveal meaning, most of the time anyway, through context. And the sentences themselves stopped being obstacles and started telling a story. Her eyes were racing ahead; she was comprehending the shape and rhythm of the language. "

― Fiona Wood , Cloudwish (The Six Impossiverse #3)

6 " 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, Jim, but not as we know it,’ I say.
‘Fascinating,’ says Lou, unsmiling humouring my Star Trek reference, while wincing at the foul food. (And what made me say that? Is there such a thing as a dad-joke vacuum that needs to be filled, even in the wild?) "

― Fiona Wood , Wildlife (Six Impossible Things/Wildlife #2)

7 " 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 , Cloudwish (The Six Impossiverse #3)

8 " REVISITING THE LIST
1. Kiss Estelle
Okay, 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, and gravity causes the pressure, or we find ourselves in a darkened room and through a series of Shakespearian ID muddles she thinks she's kissing someone else, I can't say how this is ever going to happen. "

― Fiona Wood , Six Impossible Things

9 " 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

10 " ... 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 something is, the more its universality emerges. "

― Fiona Wood , Cloudwish (The Six Impossiverse #3)

11 " 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 , Six Impossible Things

12 " Mothers are generally starvers or feeders "

― Fiona Wood , Wildlife (Six Impossible Things/Wildlife #2)

13 " ... you cow,' Estelle added. 'I heard that.' 'Give the woman the geriatric audiology medal,' Estelle said. 'I heard that, too', her mother said, from the other side of the door. "

― Fiona Wood , Six Impossible Things

14 " We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild. "

― Fiona Wood , Six Impossible Things

15 " Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish. "

― Fiona Wood , Six Impossible Things

16 " It makes me feel tired about how guarded we are the whole time. Without even trying we're ready to make a joke of everything, serving up the day with big dollops of irony and derision and cynicism. As if. Sucked in. Kidding. "

― Fiona Wood

17 " My problems are like waves - just as one disappears with a snarl and a hiss there’s another shaping up to knock me down. "

― Fiona Wood , Six Impossible Things

18 " Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won’t quit. I can’t remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that’s for sure. "

― Fiona Wood , Six Impossible Things

19 " Never listen to fools who dis Jane Eyre 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, courage, imagination and a will of iron. And that is one hell of a checklist. Imagine Charlotte Brontë writing this book in 1847. What a powerful story for women living at that time! "

― Fiona Wood , Cloudwish (The Six Impossiverse #3)

20 " There's this sky I know "

― Fiona Wood , Six Impossible Things

1
2