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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine QUOTES

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine QUOTES

1 " I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. All men like cheese. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

2 " 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.) "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

3 " My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

4 " The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my sandwich, I was more of a free-range creature. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

6 " 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. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

7 " 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. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

8 " 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. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

9 " 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

10 " 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

11 " 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. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

12 " Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that there’s something very liberating about it; once you realize that you don’t need anyone, you can take care of yourself. That’s the thing: it’s best just to take care of yourself. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

14 " All of the people in the room seemed to take so much for granted: that they would be invited to social events, that they would have friends and family to talk to, that they would fall in love, be loved in return, perhaps create a family of their own. How would I celebrate my own fortieth birthday? I wondered. I hoped I would have people in my life to mark the occasion when the time came. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

15 " The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

16 " LOL could go and take a running jump. I wasn’t made for illiteracy; it simply didn’t come naturally. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

17 " Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

18 " She had tried to steer me towards vertiginous heels again - why are these people so incredibly keen on crippling their female customers? I began to wonder if cobblers and chiropractors had established some fiendish cartel. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

19 " You’ve made me shiny, Laura,” I said. I tried to stop it, but a little tear ran down the side of my nose. I wiped it away with the back of my hand before it could dampen the ends of my new hair. “Thank you for making me shiny. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

20 " There was nothing to tempt me from the choice of desserts, so I opted instead for a coffee, which was bitter and lukewarm. Naturally, I had been about to pour it all over myself but, just in time, had read the warning printed on the paper cup, alerting me to the fact that hot liquids can cause injury. A lucky escape, Eleanor! I said to myself, laughing quietly. I began to suspect that Mr. McDonald was a very foolish man indeed, although, judging from the undiminished queue, a wealthy one. "

― Gail Honeyman , Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine