“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
“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 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
If you start a new career at 40, you've still got another 35 years to go. — Gail Honeyman Career Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.” — Gail Honeyman 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
“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
“The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden.” — Gail Honeyman Moment Copy Share Image
“Was this how it worked, then, successful social integration? Was it really that simple? Wear some lipstick, go to the hairdressers and… — Gail Honeyman Success Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that you could take them for granted, as such - heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“All of the people in the room seemed to take so much for granted: that they would be invited to social events,… — Gail Honeyman Fall in love Copy Share Image
“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 Emotions Copy Share Image
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 Impact 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 Copy Share Image
“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak… — Gail Honeyman Aloneness Copy Share Image
Even with the most horrendous things that happen and the tremendous pain that people have to deal with, they still laugh, because… — Gail Honeyman Comedy 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
“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
“If often feels as if I'm not here, that I'm a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“Everything was there, obvious to us both, but it all remained unsaid.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Three words, Ignis aurum probat. “Fire tests gold.” The rest of the phrase: “. . . and adversity tests the brave.” — Gail Honeyman Adversity 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 Copy Share Image
We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness. — Gail Honeyman Acts of kindness 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
“Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that you don't need anyone, you can take care of… — Gail Honeyman Solitude Copy Share Image
“If I’m ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I’ll think, “What would a ferret do?” — Gail Honeyman Ferret Copy Share Image
“Ignis aurum probat. ‘Fire tests gold.’ The rest of the phrase: ‘… and adversity tests the brave’.” — Gail Honeyman Adversity 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
“I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I… — Gail Honeyman Death Copy Share Image
“Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to stay true to who… — Gail Honeyman Being yourself Copy Share Image
I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
