Gail Honeyman quote: "I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)"

Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.
GAIL HONEYMAN

Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to ...
GAIL HONEYMAN

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

...In primary school, sports day was the one day of the year when the less academically gifted stude...
GAIL HONEYMAN

I find lateness exceptionally rude; it’s so disrespectful, implying unambiguously that you conside...
GAIL HONEYMAN

A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make ...
GAIL HONEYMAN

Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that there’s something ve...
GAIL HONEYMAN

Time only blunts the pain of loss. It doesn’t erase it.
GAIL HONEYMAN

There was, it seemed, no Eleanor-shaped social hole for me to slot
GAIL HONEYMAN

Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways?...
GAIL HONEYMAN

I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away,...
GAIL HONEYMAN

Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.
GAIL HONEYMAN

in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder
GAIL HONEYMAN

I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.
GAIL HONEYMAN

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

Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she gr...
KAY HONEYMAN

When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr...
GAIL DEVERS

I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must ...
GAIL CARRIGER

If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'...
GAIL COLLINS

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn&...
GAIL COLLINS

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to br...
GAIL COLLINS

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember th...
GAIL COLLINS

The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica...
GAIL COLLINS

Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,...
GAIL COLLINS

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
GAIL TSUKIYAMA

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some...
GAIL TSUKIYAMA

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revis...
GAIL TSUKIYAMA

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing t...
GAIL SIMMONS

I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv...
GAIL SIMMONS

I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I...
GAIL SIMMONS

First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in bu...
GAIL SIMMONS

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
GAIL SIMMONS

There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that though...
GAIL SIMMONS

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finis...
GAIL SIMMONS

I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'To...
GAIL SIMMONS

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars...
GAIL SIMMONS

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food...
GAIL SIMMONS

You don't get second chances in the real world.
GAIL SIMMONS

I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. Fo...
GAIL SIMMONS

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
GAIL SIMMONS

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors sh...
GAIL SIMMONS

I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that...
GAIL SIMMONS

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
GAIL SIMMONS

Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
GAIL SIMMONS

I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have...
GAIL SIMMONS

It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, b...
GAIL SIMMONS

I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself...
GAIL SIMMONS

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the p...
GAIL SHEEHY

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
GAIL SHEEHY

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
GAIL SHEEHY

I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
GAIL SHEEHY

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
GAIL SHEEHY

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
GAIL SHEEHY

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll ...
GAIL SHEEHY

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable sel...
GAIL SHEEHY

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appre...
GAIL SHEEHY

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that ma...
GAIL SHEEHY

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ...
GAIL SHEEHY

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
GAIL SHEEHY

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough....
GAIL SHEEHY

Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a na...
GAIL SHEEHY

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
GAIL SHEEHY

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fea...
GAIL SHEEHY

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of ski...
GAIL SHEEHY

I do tend to overdo everything.
GAIL PORTER

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go ...
GAIL PORTER

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
GAIL PORTER

I read everything and anything. I love books.
GAIL PORTER

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
GAIL PORTER

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea...
GAIL PORTER

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
GAIL PORTER

I don't believe in God.
GAIL PORTER

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and misera...
GAIL PORTER

Every day I do something that freaks me out.
GAIL PORTER

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your ear...
GAIL PORTER

I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop...
GAIL PORTER

I try to cope with everything through humor.
GAIL PORTER

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
GAIL PORTER

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
GAIL PORTER

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
GAIL PORTER

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
GAIL PORTER

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really...
GAIL PORTER

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
GAIL PARENT

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
GAIL PARENT

Laughter made you live better and longer.
GAIL PARENT

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to d...
GAIL O'GRADY

The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
GAIL O'GRADY

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
GAIL GODWIN

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
GAIL GODWIN

People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. Pe...
GAIL DEVERS

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody...
GAIL DEVERS

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans ...
GAIL DEVERS

While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a m...
GAIL DEVERS

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment...
GAIL DEVERS

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p...
GAIL DEVERS

It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.
GAIL DEVERS

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p...
GAIL DEVERS

It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being...
GAIL DEVERS

I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me...
GAIL DEVERS

I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. ...
GAIL DEVERS

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was ...
GAIL DEVERS

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
GAIL DEVERS

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.
GAIL DEVERS

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my k...
GAIL DEVERS

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something...
GAIL DEVERS

It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
GAIL DEVERS

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat...
GAIL DEVERS

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Paras...
GAIL CARRIGER

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores...
GAIL CARRIGER

Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunc...
GAIL CARRIGER

My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.
GAIL CARRIGER

I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
GAIL CARRIGER

At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t...
GAIL CARRIGER

To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I l...
GAIL CARRIGER

I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It'...
GAIL CARRIGER

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there does...
GAIL CARRIGER

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell...
GAIL CARRIGER

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific...
GAIL CARRIGER

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and ...
GAIL CARRIGER

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. ...
GAIL CARRIGER

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to ...
GAIL CARRIGER

Smoke machines are the best!
GAIL CARRIGER

I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. ...
GAIL CARRIGER

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habi...
GAIL SHEEHY

In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill...
GAIL COLLINS

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough....
GAIL SHEEHY

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON

Everything seems simpler from a distance.
GAIL TSUKIYAMA

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
GAIL GODWIN

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you...
GAIL GODWIN

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer va...
GAIL PARENT

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prost...
GAIL SHEEHY

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
GAIL SHEEHY

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people ...
GAIL SHEEHY

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
GAIL SHEEHY

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision...
GAIL DEVERS

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal:...
GAIL GODWIN

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...
GAIL PARENT

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GAIL DEVERS

I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can...
GAIL SIMMONS

There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in th...
GAIL COLLINS

In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years...
GAIL DEVERS

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppres...
GAIL COLLINS

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting...
GAIL COLLINS

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta...
GAIL SIMMONS

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
GAIL COLLINS

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their go...
GAIL COLLINS

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing ho...
GAIL COLLINS

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ...
GAIL SHEEHY

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ...
GAIL SHEEHY

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY

Patience is the secret to good food.
GAIL SIMMONS

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin...
GAIL SHEEHY

Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of...
GAIL SIMMONS

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas...
GAIL SHEEHY

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cinc...
GAIL COLLINS

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to d...
GAIL COLLINS

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit...
GAIL COLLINS

Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created...
GAIL COLLINS

I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha...
GAIL BLANKE

There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con...
GAIL GODWIN

I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitemen...
GAIL COLLINS

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
GAIL SHEEHY

For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues th...
GAIL COLLINS

Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do a...
GAIL CARRIGER

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's reci...
GAIL SIMMONS

I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened...
GAIL COLLINS

What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cance...
GAIL PORTER

Bald is the new black!
GAIL PORTER

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $70...
GAIL COLLINS

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
GAIL SIMMONS

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpay...
GAIL COLLINS

When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
GAIL CARRIGER

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.
GAIL PARENT

I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Resi...
GAIL COLLINS

Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald...
GAIL COLLINS

I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't h...
GAIL KELLY

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
GAIL GODWIN

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at ...
GAIL KELLY

I mean it today. And tomorrow, it will be today again, and I will mean it for that today. It's alway...
GAIL DAYTON

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the trave...
GAIL CARRIGER

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, ...
GAIL COLLINS

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, a...
GAIL HAMILTON

Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions.
GAIL ANDERSEN

We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime.
GAIL ANDERSEN

Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.
GAIL ANDERSEN

In spite of the young lineup, we will be competitive and have a quicker overall team. Last year was ...
GAIL ANDERSEN

We will have a lot of new faces in the mix. We have good team chemistry, new guys are finding their ...
GAIL ANDERSEN

We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future.
GAIL ANDERSEN

We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacki...
GAIL ANDERSEN

The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.
GAIL ANDERSEN

It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together.
GAIL ANDERSEN

For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to ge...
GAIL COLLINS

You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off...
GAIL COLLINS

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dram...
GAIL SHEEHY

Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripateti...
GAIL COLLINS

Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-3...
GAIL SHEEHY

I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

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I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

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