Gail Honeyman

“You can't protect other people, however hard you try.”

— Gail Honeyman

“Med nama je zavladala tišina in drgetala od usmiljenja.”

— Gail Honeyman

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

— Gail Honeyman

“She certainly seems to have a life, not just an existence.”

— Gail Honeyman

I'd make a terrible casting director.

— Gail Honeyman

“Time only blunts the pain of loss. It doesn’t erase it.”

— Gail Honeyman

“nebulous and milky, like light from an old, old star.”

— Gail Honeyman

“You can't have too much dog in a book.”

— Gail Honeyman

“As if a silver in the egg-and-spoon race was some sort of compensation for not understanding how to use an apostrophe.”

— Gail Honeyman

“LOL could go and take a running jump. I wasn’t made for illiteracy; it simply didn’t come naturally.”

— Gail Honeyman

I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.

— Gail Honeyman

“Everything was there, obvious to us both, but it all remained unsaid.”

— Gail Honeyman

“Three words, Ignis aurum probat. “Fire tests gold.” The rest of the phrase: “. . . and adversity tests the brave.”

— Gail Honeyman

I started doing a Ph.D., and then I thought, 'I don't really want to spend all this time on my own in…

— Gail Honeyman

“I do feel that tube tops are best suited to the under twenty-fives, if, indeed, they are suited to anyone.”

— Gail Honeyman

“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”

— Gail Honeyman

“music. It was a cacophonous din, with too many guitars and not enough melody. It was, I thought, the sound of madness,…

— Gail Honeyman

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how…

— Gail Honeyman

“People seem to like me better with makeup on, for some reason,” I said. He raised his eyebrows and shrugged, apparently as…

— Gail Honeyman

“I did not own any Tupperware, having no need of it until this point. I could go to a department store to…

— Gail Honeyman

“Their laughter seemed to have turned into low whispering now. It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing…

— Gail Honeyman

“Nine years, and you've never had a day off sick, never used all your annual leave. That's dedication, you know. It's not…

— Gail Honeyman

“There must be some piece of wiring left over in our brains, from our ancestors, something that means we can’t help but…

— Gail Honeyman

“I'm responsible. I chose to put myself in a situation where I'm responsible, wanting to look after her, a small, dependent, vulnerable…

— Gail Honeyman

“The streets were all named after poets - Wordsworth Lane, Shelley Close, Keats Rise - no doubt chosen by the building company's…

— Gail Honeyman

“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.…

— Gail Honeyman

“Free-form jigging, communal shapes in the air; Dancing was easy!...YMCA! YMCA! Arms in the air, mimicking the letters - what a marvelous…

— Gail Honeyman

“There was nothing to tempt me from the choice of desserts, so I opted instead for a coffee, which was bitter and…

— Gail Honeyman

“These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so…

— Gail Honeyman

“realized that such small gestures – the way his mother had made me a cup of tea after our meal without asking,…

— Gail Honeyman

I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong…

— Gail Honeyman

“After much reflection on the political and sociological aspects of the table, I have realized that I am completely uninterested in food.…

— Gail Honeyman

“I was almost sad when we arrived a the squat, white clubhouse. It was halfway to dark by then, with both a…

— Gail Honeyman

“I wasn't good at pretending, that was the thing. After what had happened in that burning house, given what went on there,…

— Gail Honeyman

“Janey was planning a short engagement, she'd simpered, and so, of course, the inevitable collection for the wedding present would soon follow.…

— Gail Honeyman

“It seemed there was an announcement every five minutes from the mythical conductor, imparting sagacious gems such as "large items should be…

— Gail Honeyman

“learned, could be very demanding; I still had limited direct contact with them, which suited me just fine. From what I could…

— Gail Honeyman

“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

“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.…

— Gail Honeyman

“In the end, what matters is this: I survived.”

— Gail Honeyman