Gail Honeyman

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

— Gail Honeyman

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

— Gail Honeyman

I'd make a terrible casting director.

— Gail Honeyman

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

— Gail Honeyman

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

— Gail Honeyman

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

— Gail Honeyman

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

— Gail Honeyman

I don't come to London very often.

— Gail Honeyman

“I have often noticed that people who routinely wear sportswear are the least likely sort to participate in athletic activity.”

— Gail Honeyman

“I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.”

— Gail Honeyman

“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.”

— Gail Honeyman

“I had to google "mofo" and must confess to being slightly alarmed by the result.”

— Gail Honeyman

“There was, it seemed, no Eleanor-shaped social hole for me to slot”

— Gail Honeyman

“Based on past experience, I’d be more likely to end up living in Dante Lane or Poe Crescent.”

— Gail Honeyman

“I felt like a newly laid egg, all swishy and gloopy inside, and so fragile that the slightest pressure could break me.”

— Gail Honeyman

“Your voice changes when you’re smiling, it alters the sound somehow.”

— Gail Honeyman

“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak…

— Gail Honeyman

Even with the most horrendous things that happen and the tremendous pain that people have to deal with, they still laugh, because…

— Gail Honeyman

Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated…

— Gail Honeyman

“When you're struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people's, to have to try…

— Gail Honeyman

“I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the…

— Gail Honeyman

“It wasn't that you could take them for granted, as such - heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this…

— Gail Honeyman

“All of the people in the room seemed to take so much for granted: that they would be invited to social events,…

— Gail Honeyman

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

“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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“Did you have a good time on Saturday, then?” he asked. I wished it had been between mouthfuls, but it was, in…

— 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

“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

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

— 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

“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

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

— Gail Honeyman