32 Quotes by Fiona Wood

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we’ve also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

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.

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

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders.

You don’t do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

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

As usual, I don’t know which way is north, but I know the direction of beauty.

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.

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.