“Safiye looked as if she was formed of fire herself, particles of flame dancing the flesh of her arm into existence. That… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.'… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“As it is he hears voices without form; they sing and sing, as they have from the beginning and will continue until… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn’t used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out… — Helen Oyeyemi 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 Copy Share Image
“/ To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
