“The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden.” — Gail Honeyman Moment Copy Share Image
“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
“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.” — Gail Honeyman Kind Sit 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 do feel that tube tops are best suited to the under twenty-fives, if, indeed, they are suited to anyone.” — Gail Honeyman Tube Tops Copy Share Image
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 Doing Copy Share Image
“LOL could go and take a running jump. I wasn’t made for illiteracy; it simply didn’t come naturally.” — Gail Honeyman Athlete 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
“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’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
“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
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
“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 Evil Copy Share Image
“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 Family Copy Share Image
“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 Dance Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to tempt me from the choice of desserts, so I opted instead for a coffee, which was bitter and… — Gail Honeyman Coffee Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.… — Gail Honeyman Beautiful people Copy Share Image
I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong… — Gail Honeyman Awkward Copy Share Image
“realized that such small gestures – the way his mother had made me a cup of tea after our meal without asking,… — Gail Honeyman Coffee Copy Share Image
“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 Fear 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
“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 Burning house Copy Share Image
“I was almost sad when we arrived a the squat, white clubhouse. It was halfway to dark by then, with both a… — Gail Honeyman Calmness Copy Share Image
“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 Human relationship Copy Share Image
“learned, could be very demanding; I still had limited direct contact with them, which suited me just fine. From what I could… — Gail Honeyman Designers Copy Share Image
“It seemed there was an announcement every five minutes from the mythical conductor, imparting sagacious gems such as "large items should be… — Gail Honeyman Conductor Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.… — Gail Honeyman Beautiful people 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 Life Copy Share Image
I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women. — Gail Honeyman 19th century Copy Share Image
