“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
“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.” — Gail Honeyman Books 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
“A human hand was exactly the right weight, exactly the right temperature for touching another person, I realized.” — Gail Honeyman 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 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 Copy Share Image
I've always found Glasgow to be a wonderful city - warm and funny and full of kindness. — Gail Honeyman 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
“He had the look of a gazelle or an impala, one of those boring beige animals with large, round eyes on the… — Gail Honeyman Animals 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
“No thank you,” I said. “I don’t want to accept a drink from you, because then I would be obliged to purchase… — Gail Honeyman Time Copy Share Image
“My hair was mousy brown, parted in the center, straight and not particularly thick. Human hair, doing what human hair does: growing… — Gail Honeyman Hair Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be… — Gail Honeyman Carnivores 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
“I find lateness exceptionally rude; it’s so disrespectful, implying unambiguously that you consider yourself and your own time to be so much… — Gail Honeyman 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
“It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,” he said, speaking very slowly and clearly as though I were some sort of idiot. “SpongeBob SquarePants?” A semi-human… — Gail Honeyman Entire life 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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“and I’d lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock.” — Gail Honeyman Dandelion Copy Share Image
“And the office is largely staffed by shirkers and idiots, Raymond".” — Gail Honeyman 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
“She wasn't actually chewing gum, but her demeanor was very much that of a gum chewer.” — Gail Honeyman 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
“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
“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
“People seem to like me better with makeup on, for some reason,” I said. He raised his eyebrows and shrugged, apparently as… — Gail Honeyman 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
“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
“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 Evil 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
“if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if… — Gail Honeyman Tree Copy Share Image
The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there,… — Gail Honeyman Alone 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
“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 turned out that if you saw the same person with some degree of regularity, then the conversation was immediately pleasant and… — Gail Honeyman Communication Copy Share Image
“I have always enjoyed reading, but I've never been sure how to select appropriate material. There are so many books in the… — Gail Honeyman Books Copy Share Image
“His eyes were light brown. They were light brown in the way that a rose is red, or that the sky is… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that there’s something very liberating about it; once you realize… — Gail Honeyman Solitude Copy Share Image
