Fiona Wood said this quote

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

~ Fiona Wood

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

~ 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. 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

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