Emily Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

“Juju is not enough to protect you. Everything you have I will turn against you. I'll turn sugar bitter for you. I'll take your…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Marriage is no real excuse for not loving.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“People don’t make too much money around here, but what comes with that is a different definition of what it means to be well-off.…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“He looked honored, extraordinarily honored, seeming to care for that which tore his flesh than he did for the flesh itself, embracing the blade…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“White-flowered shrubs thickened around her and so did sleep; it directed her limbs. Lie down now, sleep said sweetly. Lie down. These are the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“After half an hour the Senora emerged, short of breath, with flushed cheeks....as uf she'd been seized and shaken like a faulty thermometer.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Pops says he loves me just the way I am, but not everyone in the world is like my father. Maman, for example. A…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why…

— Helen Oyeyemi