Melissa Ritson

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Gail Honeyman
“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?”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Kristin Hannah
“Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah
“Tante Isabelle says it’s better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you’ll fly before you fall.”
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Gail Honeyman
“Whenever I'd been sad or upset before, the relevant people in my life would simply call my social worker and I'd be moved somewhere else. Raymond hadn't phoned anyone or asked an outside agency to intervene. He'd elected to look after me himself. I'd been pondering this, and concluded that there must be some people for whom difficult behavior wasn't a reason to end their relationship with you. If they liked you -- and, I remembered, Raymond and I had agreed that we were pals now -- then, it seemed, they were prepared to maintain contact, even if you were sad, or upset, or behaving in very challenging ways. This was something of a revelation.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman
“At the office, there was that palpable sense of Friday joy, everyone colluding with the lie that somehow the weekend would be amazing and that, next week, work would be different, better. They never learn.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

year in books
Marissa
192 books | 68 friends

Natalie...
78 books | 13 friends

Sarah B...
33 books | 75 friends

Andrea ...
186 books | 62 friends

Caitlin...
604 books | 30 friends

Freya
370 books | 52 friends

Writer'...
92 books | 2,049 friends

Nik Kou...
0 books | 6 friends

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