Top 30 Monica Wood Quotes (2024 Update)

Monica Wood Quote: “Physician’s assistant.”

1. “Physician’s assistant.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “His cheeks were all pinked up. Travel agreed with him, and she might have known: people like Quinn, always running from themselves, loved the road.”

2. “His cheeks were all pinked up. Travel agreed with him, and she might have known: people like Quinn, always running from themselves, loved the road.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Certain things, examined in the frozen light of retrospect, were simply unforgivable. He.”

3. “Certain things, examined in the frozen light of retrospect, were simply unforgivable. He.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who lived in them, for the sublime pleasure of disappearing. But not until now, at the threshold of this perilous summer, have I ever turned to storybooks for instruction.”

4. “I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who lived in them, for the sublime pleasure of disappearing. But not until now, at the threshold of this perilous summer, have I ever turned to storybooks for instruction.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “It took years for me to know this, to see how loss can tighten your grip on the things still possible to hold.”

5. “It took years for me to know this, to see how loss can tighten your grip on the things still possible to hold.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “I’m forty-two,” he said. “That’s eighty-four in musician years.”

6. “I’m forty-two,” he said. “That’s eighty-four in musician years.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “There is no such thing as wasted writing.”

7. “There is no such thing as wasted writing.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Convince is for thought; persuade is for action.”

8. “Convince is for thought; persuade is for action.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Your sister strikes me as the type of driver who raises the rates for everybody else.” “Good.”

9. “Your sister strikes me as the type of driver who raises the rates for everybody else.” “Good.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “It does take time. From the day I laid eyes on her, I wished Miss Louise Grady could just once look at me and see me. For years I kept that twinkling chance like a jewel in a box. That’s what unrequited means.”

10. “It does take time. From the day I laid eyes on her, I wished Miss Louise Grady could just once look at me and see me. For years I kept that twinkling chance like a jewel in a box. That’s what unrequited means.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan.”

11. “But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “He’d read obsessively-... -picking up linguistic baubles like a crow mining a roadside.”

12. “He’d read obsessively-... -picking up linguistic baubles like a crow mining a roadside.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “The packet of fading photos gives it away if you know how to look: always a rundown porch landing and stair rails behind, always a child squinting into strong sunlight and a grim-faced adult skulking in shadow. What must it have been like to grow up in that silence?”

13. “The packet of fading photos gives it away if you know how to look: always a rundown porch landing and stair rails behind, always a child squinting into strong sunlight and a grim-faced adult skulking in shadow. What must it have been like to grow up in that silence?”

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Monica Wood Quote: “When he sauntered into the house and took a brownie without asking, she realized how long it had been since someone paid her the compliment of presumption.”

14. “When he sauntered into the house and took a brownie without asking, she realized how long it had been since someone paid her the compliment of presumption.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “They were on a first-name basis now, united in female solidarity after a twenty-minute conversation about cats. How women cemented alliances over less than nothing impressed him anew.”

15. “They were on a first-name basis now, united in female solidarity after a twenty-minute conversation about cats. How women cemented alliances over less than nothing impressed him anew.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning.”

16. “Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Gradually, the darkness sculpted itself into air and object, the appointments of her room materializing as smoky shapes: a skyline of perfume bottles on her dresser...”

17. “Gradually, the darkness sculpted itself into air and object, the appointments of her room materializing as smoky shapes: a skyline of perfume bottles on her dresser...”

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Monica Wood Quote: “She died that evening and left me, in Louise fashion, sitting in ten kinds of dark.”

18. “She died that evening and left me, in Louise fashion, sitting in ten kinds of dark.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don’t they teach you anything in school?”

19. “Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don’t they teach you anything in school?”

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Monica Wood Quote: “But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.”

20. “But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “A busload of pilgrims today on journeys they never chose, having once believed themselves born for more than this.”

21. “A busload of pilgrims today on journeys they never chose, having once believed themselves born for more than this.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “He had not loved his son enough. This knowledge lived like a malignancy on his heart.”

22. “He had not loved his son enough. This knowledge lived like a malignancy on his heart.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “The shape of our family has been upended and rearranged, its roof flattened, its gateposts ripped from the earth by God’s own brutal hand, and only the animals know enough to make a run for it.”

23. “The shape of our family has been upended and rearranged, its roof flattened, its gateposts ripped from the earth by God’s own brutal hand, and only the animals know enough to make a run for it.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Convince is for thought; persuade is for action. You couldn’t convince me that taping my horrible old-lady voice was a good idea, but you persuaded me to do it anyway, didn’t you, you little dickens?”

24. “Convince is for thought; persuade is for action. You couldn’t convince me that taping my horrible old-lady voice was a good idea, but you persuaded me to do it anyway, didn’t you, you little dickens?”

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Monica Wood Quote: “A young receptionist greeted him with a buoyancy born of an excellent benefits package.”

25. “A young receptionist greeted him with a buoyancy born of an excellent benefits package.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Rennie’s people got regular breaks, footrests, English lessons, and nine bucks an hour to start. There was almost no turnover. Quinn.”

26. “Rennie’s people got regular breaks, footrests, English lessons, and nine bucks an hour to start. There was almost no turnover. Quinn.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “Mrs. Japan and Mrs. Romania had unpronounceable names, the former free-floating with vowels, the latter fortressed by consonants.”

27. “Mrs. Japan and Mrs. Romania had unpronounceable names, the former free-floating with vowels, the latter fortressed by consonants.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “You’d have thought Louise was the snow itself, falling all around me, muffling the cold and the wind even as she was the source of it.”

28. “You’d have thought Louise was the snow itself, falling all around me, muffling the cold and the wind even as she was the source of it.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “In the old lady’s house. It was just like he wrote in his diary. There was, quote, magic afoot.” Belle managed something like a laugh despite her sorrow, for the boy’s syntactical oddities had always pleased her. He’d read obsessively – instruction manuals, record books, novels far too old for him – picking up linguistic baubles like a crow mining a roadside.”

29. “In the old lady’s house. It was just like he wrote in his diary. There was, quote, magic afoot.” Belle managed something like a laugh despite her sorrow, for the boy’s syntactical oddities had always pleased her. He’d read obsessively – instruction manuals, record books, novels far too old for him – picking up linguistic baubles like a crow mining a roadside.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “People don’t write their own endings,” he said.”

30. “People don’t write their own endings,” he said.”

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Monica Wood Quote: “This night I’m thinking of, it had one of those skies where the stars looked poured from a barrel.”

31. “This night I’m thinking of, it had one of those skies where the stars looked poured from a barrel.”

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