When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak a — Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak a — Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak a — Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak a — Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak a — Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
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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
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