112 Quotes by Gail Honeyman

"I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive."

"It often feels as if I am not here, that I am a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the Earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar. A strong gust of wind could dislodge me completely, and I'd lift off, and blow away, like one of the seeds in a dandelion clock"

"It wasn't that you could take them for granted, as such - heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this life - it was simply that you would know, almost unthinkingly, that they'd be there if you needed them, no matter how bad things got."

"I'm responsible. I chose to put myself in a situation where I'm responsible, wanting to look after her, a small, dependent, vulnerable creature. It's innate and I don't even have to think about it. It's like breathing -- for some people."

"We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness."

"If I can't be a corpse, then I wish hat I was a baby, curled up in some other woman's womb, pure and longed for."

"These days, loneliness is the new cancer - a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don't want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them."

"In the end, what matters is this: I survived."

"You can't have too much dog in a book."

"Jane Eyre. A strange child, difficult to love. A lonely, only child."