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Gail Honeyman
“She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize it if they ever did.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
tags: hurt, love

Dorothy Whipple
“In the bosom of a family, nothing can be hidden. One might wish, when things are bad, to suffer unobserved, but in a family there is no chance of that.”
Dorothy Whipple, Because of the Lockwoods

Gabriel Tallent
“Hold tight to the world and do not let go and do not fuck this up.”
Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling

Gail Honeyman
“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

Gabriel Tallent
“Dude, with your voice you are like, 'Look at all these books I've read,' but with your eyes you are like, 'Help me.”
Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling

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