112 Quotes by Gail Honeyman

"Nature should make her presence felt in the room in some way, I thought; living nature. Not cut flowers."

"After much reflection on the political and sociological aspects of the table, I have realized that I am completely uninterested in food."

"I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness."

"It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,” he said, speaking very slowly and clearly as though I were some sort of idiot. “SpongeBob SquarePants?” A semi-human bath sponge with protruding front teeth! On sale as if it were something completely unremarkable! For my entire life, people have said that I’m strange, but really, when I see things like this, I realize that I’m actually relatively normal."

"Free-form jigging, communal shapes in the air; Dancing was easy!...YMCA! YMCA! Arms in the air, mimicking the letters - what a marvelous idea! Who knew that dancing could be so logical? ...From my limited exposure to popular music, people did seem to sing about umbrellas and firstarting and Emily Bronte novels, so, I supposed, why not a gender-and faith-based youth organization?"

"I have yet to find a genre of music I enjoy; it’s basically audible physics, waves and energized particles, and, like most sane people, I have no interest in physics."

"I yearned for that brief, sharp feeling I get when I drink it - a sad, burning feeling - and then, blissfully, no feelings at all."

"Was I alive? I hoped so, but only because if this was the location of the afterlife, I'd be lodging an appeal immediately."

"There was no window, and a framed print on the wall (a vase of roses, made using a computer by someone who was dead inside) was more offensive to the eye than a bare wall."

"My life, I realized, had gone wrong. Very, very wrong. I wasn't supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn't know how to make it right. Mummy's way of thinking was wrong. I knew that. But no one had ever shown me the right way to live a life, & although I'd tried my best over the years, I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me."