“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried… — Gail Honeyman Abuse 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
“Grief is the price we pay for love, so they say. The price is far too high.” — Gail Honeyman Grief 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
“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 Holiday Copy Share Image
I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If… — Gail Honeyman Big 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
“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
“A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine.” — Gail Honeyman Psychology 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
“My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.” — Gail Honeyman Eleanor-oliphant 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 Fire 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 Copy Share Image
“There was, it seemed, no Eleanor-shaped social hole for me to slot” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Asking for help was anathema to me. I'd told Maria that. 'And how's that been working out for you so far?' she'd… — Gail Honeyman Anathema Copy Share Image
“It is incomprehensible to me now that I could ever have thought that anyone would love this ambulant bag of blood and… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Did you enjoy yourself?' I asked. 'Mmm,' he said. 'It was fun, wasn't it?' He wasn't using a knife, but held a… — Gail Honeyman Children 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
“...when you took a moment to see what was around you, noticed all the little things, it made you feel....lighter.” — Gail Honeyman Little things 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
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
“realized that such small gestures – the way his mother had made me a cup of tea after our meal without asking,… — Gail Honeyman Cup of tea Copy Share Image
“I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's… — Gail Honeyman Contemporary Copy Share Image
