Heart Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

9 Heart quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

Oyeyemi’s prose twists and turns, turning familiar feelings into fresh, uncanny perspectives. In just a few lines, she invites you to see the heart’s mysteries from a new angle.

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

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However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my…

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“She was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who'd just come from the future but didn't want to brag about it.”

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“With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening…

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“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero…

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“She was an ordinary librarian, innocent of any crime, but one day she fell into a giant paint box and has been…

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“She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until…

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Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still…

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The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the…

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“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…

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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…

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

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“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.”

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

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

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“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…

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The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less I'll be…

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The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or…

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“So her missing person's poster features a girl with long hair and dreamy eyes that don't see the fracture coming.”

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