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Mrs. Gibbons
Sammy’s daughter. She is 35 years old, gorgeous, and runs a beauty salon. Laura is turned off by Eleanor’s strangeness at first, though she eventually takes a liking to her offbeat sense of humor and gives Eleanor a transformative haircut that covers her scars from the fire and makes her feel beautiful. Laura has a flirtatious but ultimately unsuccessful relationship with Raymond, who finds her to be too “high maintenance” for his liking.
Laura Quotes in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine quotes below are all either spoken by Laura or refer to Laura. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Good Days: Chapter 20
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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 biscuits on the saucer when she brought me coffee in the salon—such things could mean so much. I wondered how it would feel to perform such simple deeds for other people. I couldn’t remember. I had done such things in the past, tried to be kind, tried to take care, I knew that I had, but that was before. I tried, and I had failed, and all was lost to me afterward. I had no one to blame but myself.
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Laura Quotes in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine quotes below are all either spoken by Laura or refer to Laura. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Good Days: Chapter 20
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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 biscuits on the saucer when she brought me coffee in the salon—such things could mean so much. I wondered how it would feel to perform such simple deeds for other people. I couldn’t remember. I had done such things in the past, tried to be kind, tried to take care, I knew that I had, but that was before. I tried, and I had failed, and all was lost to me afterward. I had no one to blame but myself.
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