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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

Daphne du Maurier
“They were all gone, these other selves, and they would never come back again.They had vanished, like little thoughts and little dreams, poor has-beens that had lived in me and I in them, now thrown away into the dust, not even lingering as shadows to keep me company.”
Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

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
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Gail Honeyman
“You can't have too much dog in a book.”
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman
“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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Join me reading the twelve novels written by English novelist Elizabeth Taylor, in Publication order. We will read one book each month over twelve mo ...more
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