“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Tiny slivers of life--they all added up and helped you to feel that you too could be a fragment, a little piece… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Life is all about taking decisive action, darling. Whatever you want to do, do it— whatever you want to take, grab it.… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life,… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that there are many things in life that I’ve never considered doing, Raymond. I suppose I hadn’t realized… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that you could take them for granted, as such - heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I was in a fast-food restaurant for the first time in my adult life, an enormous and garish place just around the… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Whenever I'd been sad or upset before, the relevant people in my life would simply call my social worker and I'd be… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“I go over most Sundays,' he went on. 'She doesn't get out much - I'm sure she'd love to see a new face.' 'Even… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“Men like Raymond, pedestrial dullards, would always be distracted by women who looked like her, having neither the wit nor the sophistication to see… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“I allowed my mind to wander. I’ve found this to be a very effective way of passing the time; you take a situation or… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that there’s something very liberating about it; once you realize that you… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“I have always enjoyed reading, but I've never been sure how to select appropriate material. There are so many books in the world--how do… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“A human hand was exactly the right weight, exactly the right temperature for touching another person, I realized.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There are days… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“When you're struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people's, to have to try and manage… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“It wasn't that you could take them for granted, as such - heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this life -… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
“I'm responsible. I chose to put myself in a situation where I'm responsible, wanting to look after her, a small, dependent, vulnerable creature. It's… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share
