Quotes About Fiona

Fiona only spoke when called upon and always sighed her way through answers as if school were the ultimate inconvenience. She was unknowable in the way that all girls are unknowable, but also in her own way.

I am quite out of patience with him. Fiona Kincaid set her teacup on the small tray with a decided click. Dougal's been in a horrid temper since he arrived. I like him better this way, Fiona's handsome husband retorted. He barely said a word over breakfast. She gave an exasperated sigh. I'm surprised you two don't get along better, as you're very similar. Jack's flat stare made her add hastily, In some things. In very few things.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

As if on cue, Fiona appeared in another of the ballroom's multiple doorways. 'Beatrice! Oliver! How many times have I told you no skating in the house? I just had these floors refinished.' 'So that's why it's extra slippery today,' mused Oliver. 'Cool.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Money sloshed around via wire, and artworks of dubious provenance moved from collector to collector trailed by 1031 like-kind exchange tax forms, deferring taxes even as the work appreciated, or so Jeff understood, when Fiona explained it.

But Fiona had known even before she'd gone to a therapist or taken medications that no medical plan would work. Her behaviors had arisen purely and completely from the guilt and shame in what she'd done to Lana. After all, they hadn't existed before Lana—not even when Lana's teasing was at its worst.

Really, I've been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

with a spoon in his hand, and when the spoon clanged

said, pointing Kirin to a line on his ledger. 'Evening meal's

We have politicized the issue of Russia to a point that we can't have a sensible conversation about it.

The development of Fiona set the stage for this new phase in Amazon's history and revealed the company as relentlessly innovative and disruptive, as well as calculating and ruthless. Amazon's

A couple of hundred feet above the panoramic route Fiona was travelling back to the city, Kit was opening a heavy pair of wooden shutters with ornate iron fittings.

But I saw no sign of Fiona shedding the chrysalis of Communism.

That's what makes you so interesting, Fiona. All the male CEOs I meet are press whores. You aren't. And they bore me to extinction. They're dying to have me write about them. You won't give me a five -minute interview, and I won a Pulitzer, for chrissake.

I could hear a gaggle of Americans, couples, laughing, saying their loud goodbyes as they parted for their respective rooms: old college friends, jobs in the financial sector, five-plus years of corporate law and Fiona entering the first grade in the fall, all's well in Oaklandia, well goodnight then, God we love you guys, a life I might have had myself except I didn't want it.

not his first choice. He works most of the time with people like Fiona Campbell-Walter and Barbara