“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 Success 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 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
I wanted to write about the transformative power of small acts of kindness. An old man falls in the street, you stop… — Gail Honeyman Acts of kindness Copy Share Image
“Your voice changes when you’re smiling, it alters the sound somehow.” — Gail Honeyman 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
“She had tried to steer me towards vertiginous heels again - why are these people so incredibly keen on crippling their female… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Did you have a good time on Saturday, then?” he asked. I wished it had been between mouthfuls, but it was, in… — Gail Honeyman Dancing 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
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
“The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my… — Gail Honeyman Chicken Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I had to google "mofo" and must confess to being slightly alarmed by the result.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I understood that assisted conception was the antithesis of careless, spontaneous or unplanned parenthood, that it was the most deliberate of decisions,… — Gail Honeyman Parenting 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 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 Copy Share Image
“How brave are you prepared to be, Eleanor?” Laura asked. This was the correct question. I am brave. I am brave, courageous,… — Gail Honeyman Courage 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women. — Gail Honeyman About 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
“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
“It occurs to me that there are many things in life that I’ve never considered doing, Raymond. I suppose I hadn’t realized… — Gail Honeyman Life 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 Copy Share Image
“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 Cheese 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 Dancing Copy Share Image
