“my heart stirring this way and that like so much hot soup,” — Helen Oyeyemi Hot soup Copy Share Image
“I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library… — Helen Oyeyemi Libraries Copy Share Image
“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.” — Helen Oyeyemi Gingerbread Copy Share Image
“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.” — Helen Oyeyemi Ancestors Copy Share Image
There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“So her missing person's poster features a girl with long hair and dreamy eyes that don't see the fracture coming.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Mami answers and her voice is hoarse and thin, and i think fight me better than this .” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the average annoyed American only needs to pull three terrible faces before she feels better.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible… — Helen Oyeyemi Horizon Copy Share Image
“She told him that she had looked after him because of the white hairs on his forehead that grew into the shape… — Helen Oyeyemi Fox Copy Share Image
“Most of the people who say beauty fades say it with a smirk. Fading is more than just expected, it’s what they… — Helen Oyeyemi Beauty Copy Share Image
The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your ghost pours… — Helen Oyeyemi Coffee Copy Share Image
“School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really… — Helen Oyeyemi Getting better Copy Share Image
“She doesn’t complain about anything I do; she is physically unable to. That’s because I fixed her early. I told her in… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“And all the while there was the theater of my hands. It was theater, in that it was the performance of something… — Helen Oyeyemi Actor Copy Share Image
Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name)… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread… — Helen Oyeyemi Adventurer Copy Share Image
I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you laughed, and then my glove puppet would weep piteously. When you took the glove puppet he alternated between flirtatious and… — Helen Oyeyemi History Copy Share Image
“Dear Miranda Silver, This house is bigger than you know! There are extra floors, with lots of people in them. They are… — Helen Oyeyemi Ghosts Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I say terrible things to him because I don't want him to know I'm sad; sometimes I fly off the handle… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“So she quit working to make sense of things— we don’t realise it, but it’s hard work we do almost every waking… — Helen Oyeyemi Balance Copy Share Image
“...there’s a part of my heart or mind, or some spot where the two meet, a spot that isn’t mine because I’m… — Helen Oyeyemi Body love Copy Share Image
“She ought to know that if you want to set yourself up as queen and have everything the way you want it… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Tyche's beauty is interestingly kinetic; it comes and goes and comes back again. Or maybe it's more that you observe it in… — Helen Oyeyemi Beauty Copy Share Image
“Has she read any of the comments? That's what I wondered. Did the woman from YouTube video understand that the public wasn't… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Aya overflows with ache, or power. When the accent is taken off it, ache describes, in English, bone-deep pain. But otherwise ache… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“No, I found her. I know she doesn't look like a puppet, but she is one. I know it because when I… — Helen Oyeyemi Habits Copy Share Image
“Well, she keeps an eye on big journeys from the interior to the exterior, or vice versa. She's there for the steps… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Academics Copy Share Image
“She isn't a storm or a leader or a king or a war or anyone whose life and death makes noise. The… — Helen Oyeyemi Death Copy Share Image
“Lucy happily settled down to work. First she sent for papyrus and handmade a book leaf by leaf, binding the leaves together… — Helen Oyeyemi Books Copy Share Image
You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
