“She was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who'd just come from the future but didn't want to brag about it.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I’ve always had a hard time figuring out what the moral of a story is supposed to be, and she was bound… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.” — 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 Copy Share Image
The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And to leave ourselves, to leave… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions… — 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 Copy Share Image
I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Where do you see yourself in ten years’ time?” she asked. My answer: “Not sure, but maybe on a beach reading a… — 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 Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Everyone would believe her because at the back of their minds, everyone thinks that twin brothers and sisters grow up magnetized towards… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“ The water is very green and has a sweet taste, both boys wrote in their diaries, at different times.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long… — 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
