“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 do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. — Helen Oyeyemi Because 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 Money 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 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… — Helen Oyeyemi Sleep 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… — Helen Oyeyemi Back Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Academics 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 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
“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
“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 and girls Copy Share Image
The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less… — Helen Oyeyemi Admire Copy Share Image
The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the… — Helen Oyeyemi Barefoot 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
“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
“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero… — Helen Oyeyemi Encouragement Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the… — Helen Oyeyemi Also Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a child with wise eyes is born. Then some people will call that child an old soul. That is enough to… — Helen Oyeyemi Children Copy Share Image
I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names. — Helen Oyeyemi Calling 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 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 Attitude problem 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
“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 Time 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 Failings Copy Share Image
