Quotes from Fiona Wood

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.

If you survived then you were all right; no - lucky. What problems? You're alive! She wanted more than survival. She wanted beauty; she wanted love; she wanted abundance.

What would Jane do?

How disconcerting it was to have an idle fantasy turn into real life attraction.

What would the limitations on her new-found charm be? Was there an expiry date? She couldn't even revisit how the hell was this happening? It was too much to get her head around. It did not bear scrutiny.

Who had decided that some should have so little and others so much?

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.

There's this sky I like.

How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.