Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
“These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.”
“Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to stay true to who you really are.”
“I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.”
“In the end, what matters is this: I survived.”
“A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who's wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable? I think that it is perfectly normal to talk to oneself occasionally. It's not as though I'm expecting a reply. I'm fully aware that Polly is a houseplant.”
“Time only blunts the pain of loss. It doesn’t erase it.”
“There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar. A strong gust of wind could dislodge me completely, and I’d lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock. The threads tighten slightly from Monday to Friday.”
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Book Keywords:
survival, reading, libraries, social-norms, abuse, books, things-that-matter, being-yourself, depression, i-m-still-here
