“Everything was there, obvious to us both, but it all remained unsaid.” — Gail Honeyman Obvious 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 love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women. — Gail Honeyman 19th century Copy Share Image
“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 Spoon 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 Hole 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'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
“Their laughter seemed to have turned into low whispering now. It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing… — Gail Honeyman Laughter 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
“People seem to like me better with makeup on, for some reason,” I said. He raised his eyebrows and shrugged, apparently as… — Gail Honeyman Raised eyebrows Copy Share Image
“I did not own any Tupperware, having no need of it until this point. I could go to a department store to… — Gail Honeyman Department store Copy Share Image
“music. It was a cacophonous din, with too many guitars and not enough melody. It was, I thought, the sound of madness,… — Gail Honeyman Madness Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how… — Gail Honeyman Character Copy Share Image
“When did people become embarrassed to sing in public? Was it because of the decline in churchgoing? And yet the television schedule… — Gail Honeyman People Embarrassed 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
“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
“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 Exist 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
“After much reflection on the political and sociological aspects of the table, I have realized that I am completely uninterested in food.… — Gail Honeyman Food Copy Share Image
“Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways? When they opened a newspaper… — Gail Honeyman Handsome men Copy Share Image
“It was too hot inside the hospital and the floors squeaked. There was a hand-gel dispenser outside the ward, and a big… — Gail Honeyman Drink 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
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 simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.” — Gail Honeyman Puzzle 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
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Language Copy Share Image
“I had to google "mofo" and must confess to being slightly alarmed by the result.” — Gail Honeyman Internet Copy Share Image
'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of… — Gail Honeyman Brutal honesty Copy Share Image
I've always found Glasgow to be a wonderful city - warm and funny and full of kindness. — Gail Honeyman Always 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
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 Feedback Copy Share Image
“A human hand was exactly the right weight, exactly the right temperature for touching another person, I realized.” — Gail Honeyman Touching Person 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 Chewing gum 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
“And the office is largely staffed by shirkers and idiots, Raymond".” — Gail Honeyman Idiots Raymond Copy Share Image
