Atira

“Treating people badly in reaction to how they treat us plays into the ugliness in the world and perpetuates it.”
― Kim Holden, So Much More

“In primary school, sports day was the one day of the year when the less academically gifted students could triumph...As if a silver in the egg-and-spoon race was some sort of compensation for not understanding how to use an apostrophe”
― Gail Honeyman

“Grief is the price we pay for love, so they say. The price is far too high.”
― Gail Honeyman

“But, by careful observation from the sidelines, I’d worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things they don’t find very funny, do things they don’t particularly want to, with people whose company they don’t particularly enjoy. Not me. I had decided, years ago, that if the choice was between that or flying solo, then I’d fly solo. It was safer that way.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine