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Gail Honeyman
“Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to stay true to who you really are.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“When you're struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people's, to have to try and manage theirs too.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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