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  1. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    She only really enjoyed her own company. She tolerated mine, but fundamentally she was a recluse at heart, like J.D. Salinger or the Unabomber.
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  2. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    Mummy's a bad person,' I said. 'Really bad. I know that, I've always known that. And I wondered … do you think I might be bad too? People inherit all sorts of things from their parents, don't they – varicose veins, heart disease. Can you inherit badness?
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  3. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    Life is all about taking decisive action, darling. Whatever you want to do, do it - whatever you want to take, grab it. Whatever you want to bring to an end, END IT. And live with the consequences.
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    The world just went on, regardless of what happened. That's how it works.
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  5. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    Well, there was a man that I took a bit of a liking to, a little crush, you might say, and I got slightly carried away, and then I realized that, actually, I'd been a bit silly. We weren't going to be together. And he – well, it turned out that he wasn't even right for me anyway. He wasn't the man I thought he was. I felt sad about that, and I felt extremely stupid for getting it all so wrong. That's all it was …
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  6. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    Fire tests gold, and adversity tests the brave.
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  7. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face.
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  8. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    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.
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  9. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    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 behaviour wasn't a reason to end their relationship with you.
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  10. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    Eleanor, you were AWOL from work for three days, Bob was really worried about you, we all were. I got your address from him, I came round to see if you're OK, and I find you … I find you …' '… preparing to kill myself?' I ask.
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  11. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    My life, I realized, had gone wrong. Very, very wrong. I wasn't supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn't know how to make it right.
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  12. Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely

    I wanted to die – this time, in addition to actually wanting to die, I meant it in the metaphorical sense too. Oh, come on now, I thought to myself, almost amused; just how desperately, on how many levels, does a person have to wish to die before it's actually allowed to happen? Please?
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