“It struck me that, in the nicest possible way, she didn't really have a personality. She was a mother.” — Gail Honeyman Mother Copy Share Image
If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful. — Gail Honeyman Debate Copy Share Image
“The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden.” — Gail Honeyman Moment Copy Share Image
If you start a new career at 40, you've still got another 35 years to go. — Gail Honeyman Career Copy Share Image
“I had to google "mofo" and must confess to being slightly alarmed by the result.” — Gail Honeyman Internet Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Language Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that people who routinely wear sportswear are the least likely sort to participate in athletic activity.” — Gail Honeyman Football Copy Share Image
“I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.” — Gail Honeyman Puzzle Copy Share Image
Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in… — Gail Honeyman Caring Copy Share Image
“He had the look of a gazelle or an impala, one of those boring beige animals with large, round eyes on the… — Gail Honeyman Animals Copy Share Image
“No thank you,” I said. “I don’t want to accept a drink from you, because then I would be obliged to purchase… — Gail Honeyman Time Copy Share Image
“My hair was mousy brown, parted in the center, straight and not particularly thick. Human hair, doing what human hair does: growing… — Gail Honeyman Hair Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be… — Gail Honeyman Carnivores Copy Share Image
“I find lateness exceptionally rude; it’s so disrespectful, implying unambiguously that you consider yourself and your own time to be so much… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means,… — Gail Honeyman Attention Copy Share Image
“Was this how it worked, then, successful social integration? Was it really that simple? Wear some lipstick, go to the hairdressers and… — Gail Honeyman Success Copy Share Image
“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… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are… — Gail Honeyman Nature Copy Share Image
“They choose things like plates, bowls and cutlery—I mean, what are they doing at the moment: shoveling food from packets into their… — Gail Honeyman Cutlery Copy Share Image
“But, by careful observation from the sidelines, I’d worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular… — Gail Honeyman Comedy Copy Share Image
“It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,” he said, speaking very slowly and clearly as though I were some sort of idiot. “SpongeBob SquarePants?” A semi-human… — Gail Honeyman Entire life 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 Adult life Copy Share Image
“After the shampoo was rinsed away, the girl performed a ‘shiatsu head massage’. I have never known such bliss. She kneaded my… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“If often feels as if I'm not here, that I'm a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit. — Gail Honeyman Girl Copy Share Image
“if you’re going to drink a cup of tea, why not take every care to maximize the pleasure?” — Gail Honeyman Coffee Copy Share Image
“Your voice changes when you’re smiling, it alters the sound somehow.” — Gail Honeyman Smiling Copy Share Image
“I felt like a newly laid egg, all swishy and gloopy inside, and so fragile that the slightest pressure could break me.” — Gail Honeyman Fragile Copy Share Image
“Based on past experience, I’d be more likely to end up living in Dante Lane or Poe Crescent.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“There was, it seemed, no Eleanor-shaped social hole for me to slot” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“And the office is largely staffed by shirkers and idiots, Raymond".” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“and I’d lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock.” — Gail Honeyman Dandelion Copy Share Image
I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction. — Gail Honeyman Friendship Copy Share Image
“It takes a long time to learn to live with loss, assuming you ever manage it.” — Gail Honeyman Death Copy Share Image
“She wasn't actually chewing gum, but her demeanor was very much that of a gum chewer.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“A human hand was exactly the right weight, exactly the right temperature for touching another person, I realized.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I've always found Glasgow to be a wonderful city - warm and funny and full of kindness. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
