Gail Honeyman Quotes

“I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. All men like cheese.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my sandwich, I was more of a free-range creature.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“She was, quite simply, a nice lady who'd raised a family and now lived quietly with her cats and grew vegetables. This was both nothing and everything.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I realized that such small gestures - the way his mother had made me a cup of tea after our meal without asking, remembering that I didn't take sugar, the way Laura had placed two little bisquits on the saucer when she brought me coffee in the salon - such things could mean so much.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I felt a warmth inside, a cosy, glowy feeling like hot tea on a cold morning.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Could I ever become a Musician's muse, I wondered? What was a muse, anyway?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I go over most Sundays,' he went on. 'She doesn't get out much - I'm sure she'd love to see a new face.'
'Even one like mine?' I said.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Human hair, doing what human hair does: growing on my head.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“The ugliness didn't matter - after all, there was no one to see me.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“You can make anything happen, anything at all, inside a daydream.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Who was this stranger, and why had I chosen him, of all the men in this city, this country, the world, to be my saviour?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Another bad sign - someone or something had turned vodka into water. This was not my preferred kind of miracle.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Asking for help was anathema to me. I'd told Maria that. 'And how's that been working out for you so far?' she'd said. I didn't appreciate her somewhat pointed tone, but she was quite right. That didn't, however, mean that it was easy.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine