“Miranda nodded and her reflection nodded, so that was twice” — Helen Oyeyemi Mirrors 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
“Was turning it this way and that in order to catch fireflies in the billowing, transparent left sleeve of her gown.” — Helen Oyeyemi Fireflies Copy Share Image
This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was… — Helen Oyeyemi Anger Copy Share Image
I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands. — Helen Oyeyemi Demands Copy Share Image
“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.” — Helen Oyeyemi Mirrors Copy Share Image
“You feel you’ve seen a hundred of me. You know how my tiny mind works. But maybe it goes both ways.” — Helen Oyeyemi Psychology Copy Share Image
“Why can't we kill this panic, or do the other thing and make it mute?” — Helen Oyeyemi Mute Copy Share Image
“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.” — Helen Oyeyemi Gingerbread Copy Share Image
“I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library… — Helen Oyeyemi Libraries Copy Share Image
“Daphne came in with her arms full of books, and her eyes blazing like two poisoned moons. "How'd you like the mess… — Helen Oyeyemi Books Copy Share Image
“He was drinking Harriet's favourite, cold tea... not iced tea, but hot tea that had cooled. They liked him so much. They… — Helen Oyeyemi Character-description Copy Share Image
“To the naked eye Boudicca is a haze of noxious green that lurks among fronds of seaweed looking exactly like the aftermath… — Helen Oyeyemi Haze Copy Share Image
“She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in… — Helen Oyeyemi Accustomed Copy Share Image
“How will I know I've grown up? When I've started using words I didn't really know the meaning of. I said I… — Helen Oyeyemi Said Copy Share Image
“I've read that madness is present when everything you see and hear takes on an equal significance. A dead bird makes you… — Helen Oyeyemi Madness Copy Share Image
“In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible… — Helen Oyeyemi Horizon Copy Share Image
“No, this is pretty much the same version I read," I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I… — Helen Oyeyemi Government Copy Share Image
“I bought a brown-skinned glove puppet. He came with a little black briefcase and his hair was parted exactly down the middle.… — Helen Oyeyemi Puppet Copy Share Image
“Do you want this ice cream?" he asked her, whisking the dish all around the tabletop. "I mean, do you truly want… — Helen Oyeyemi Asked Copy Share Image
“His puppets have a nihilistic spirit, if you'd understand what I meant by that. Sometimes his puppets won't perform at all. He… — Helen Oyeyemi Nihilistic Copy Share Image
I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so… — Helen Oyeyemi About Copy Share Image
“Sure, I’ve occasionally told Louis Chen that I hope a monster eats him, and he’s told me to go boil my head… — Helen Oyeyemi Getting married Copy Share Image
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear… — Helen Oyeyemi Abstract Copy Share Image
A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about… — Helen Oyeyemi About Copy Share Image
“There were days when she’d open her eyes and be him for six hours in a row; she knew all his secrets… — Helen Oyeyemi Happiness Copy Share Image
“I saw them in the dark, the girls, the women yet to be found. I counted their faces, gave them names and… — Helen Oyeyemi Murderers 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
“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
“Everyone would believe her because at the back of their minds, everyone thinks that twin brothers and sisters grow up magnetized towards… — Helen Oyeyemi Brother and sister Copy Share Image
“When things are serious and either Amy Eleni or I need to beat our personal hysteric, the informal code is to seize… — Helen Oyeyemi Programming Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I dream I'm falling, and it's not so much frightening as it is tedious, just falling and falling until I'm sick… — Helen Oyeyemi Dreams Copy Share Image
Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that… — Helen Oyeyemi Attractive Copy Share Image
“Rowan told me about a girl who responded to all external stimuli except human touch. That, she did not feel at all,… — Helen Oyeyemi Pain relief Copy Share Image
