“Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.” — Helen Oyeyemi Best friend Copy Share Image
“They tried their best with each other, but it just wasn’t any good.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. — Helen Oyeyemi Good reading Copy Share Image
Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at? — Helen Oyeyemi Dangerous Copy Share Image
I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands. — Helen Oyeyemi Demand Copy Share Image
“Miranda nodded and her reflection nodded, so that was twice” — Helen Oyeyemi Mirrors 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… — Helen Oyeyemi Heart 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw… — Helen Oyeyemi Alive 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… — Helen Oyeyemi Bitter Copy Share Image
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed. — Helen Oyeyemi Absorb Copy Share Image
“All around them people were speaking a language Brown didn’t understand; it was like silence with sharp edges in it.” — Helen Oyeyemi Language 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… — Helen Oyeyemi Boys Copy Share Image
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. — Helen Oyeyemi Because 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… — Helen Oyeyemi Honored Copy Share Image
“I can’t explain, maybe it isn’t something that needs explaining, how the sight of a broken cage just puts you up on… — Helen Oyeyemi Cage Copy Share Image
It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the… — Helen Oyeyemi Audience Copy Share Image
“There are people who are drawn to secrets as ants are to jam. Fausta's one of them. She searches out all things… — Helen Oyeyemi Heart beat Copy Share Image
“Aside from infrequent comments ("Cheer up, love," or "It's not Hallo'ween"), no one wondered why a teenager was dressed up as a… — Helen Oyeyemi Chic 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 Food Copy Share Image
“There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty. But who finds… — Helen Oyeyemi Happiness Copy Share Image
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to… — Helen Oyeyemi Imagine 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 Life Copy Share Image
“I like to hear the marching of typewriter keys, the shudder of the space bar, the metallic ding at the end of… — 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… — Helen Oyeyemi Parenting 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
“As nighttime turned into dawn, the mountain seemed to travel down the street. It advanced on tiptoe, fully prepared to be shooed… — Helen Oyeyemi Mountain Wish 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… — Helen Oyeyemi Billionaire Copy Share Image
“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.” I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I… — Helen Oyeyemi Fairy Copy Share Image
“Our favorite film is Vertigo . Amy Eleni and I must watch it seventeen or eighteen times a year, and with each… — Helen Oyeyemi Cinema Copy Share Image
“Finally, he smiled, and although his smile was bumpy because some of his teeth were jagged and broken, it was a warming,… — Helen Oyeyemi Afro-hair Copy Share Image
“Safiye looked as if she was formed of fire herself, particles of flame dancing the flesh of her arm into existence. That… — Helen Oyeyemi Fire Copy Share Image
“The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.” — Helen Oyeyemi Advice Copy Share Image
“He was talented, at an age when other boys were horrible kissers, just horrible and sloppy. I was fourteen then, and he… — Helen Oyeyemi Helen-oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I do what I say I’m going to do, but more often I don’t. It’s a failing. The least of my… — Helen Oyeyemi Failing Copy Share Image
“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero… — Helen Oyeyemi Encouraged 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 Long hair Copy Share Image
“She was an ordinary librarian, innocent of any crime, but one day she fell into a giant paint box and has been… — Helen Oyeyemi Heart Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the average annoyed American only needs to pull three terrible faces before she feels better.” — Helen Oyeyemi American Copy Share Image
