“The stormy night turned the window of Lucy's room into a door;” — Helen Oyeyemi Night Turned Copy Share Image
I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them. — Helen Oyeyemi Alien 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 Heart Copy Share Image
“Mami answers and her voice is hoarse and thin, and i think fight me better than this .” — Helen Oyeyemi Hoarse 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
You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains. — Helen Oyeyemi Clear Copy Share Image
“She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.” — Helen Oyeyemi Emeralds Copy Share Image
I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands. — Helen Oyeyemi Demand Copy Share Image
“She found a mirror and turned around in front of it with her arms held out in front of her. She was… — Helen Oyeyemi Lost 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
“[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to… — Helen Oyeyemi Father Copy Share Image
“And that was what all the expressions felt like— masks. I didn’t believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were… — Helen Oyeyemi Expressions Copy Share Image
“Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped… — Helen Oyeyemi Anger Copy Share Image
“I think they must have recognized something in each other, some poorly concealed intensity that other people find nerve-racking.” — Helen Oyeyemi Nerve Racking Copy Share Image
“… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.” — Helen Oyeyemi Difference 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
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than… — Helen Oyeyemi Always Copy Share Image
“...The skirt flared wonderfully, and there was the sweet ribbon bow at the waist. It was a dress to be worn by… — Helen Oyeyemi Fashion Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we cannot see or hear or breathe because of our fright that this is all our bodies will know. We're scared… — Helen Oyeyemi Fright Copy Share Image
And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to… — Helen Oyeyemi Argument Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Fletcher tells Mom over and over that she should be making more conversation with me, because apparently I'm at a "dangerous… — Helen Oyeyemi Conversation Copy Share Image
“It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and… — Helen Oyeyemi Fairy-tales-for-adults 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 like to hear the marching of typewriter keys, the shudder of the space bar, the metallic ding at the end of… — Helen Oyeyemi Typewriter 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
“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
“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
“Has she read any of the comments? That's what I wondered. Did the woman from YouTube video understand that the public wasn't… — Helen Oyeyemi Allegations Copy Share Image
“Aya overflows with ache, or power. When the accent is taken off it, ache describes, in English, bone-deep pain. But otherwise ache… — Helen Oyeyemi Ache 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
“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
There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty. — Helen Oyeyemi Enough 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
“It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over.” — Helen Oyeyemi Difficult Copy Share Image
“Oh, everyone’s got a view, haven’t they? .. Everyone’s got something to say," she’d tell me. ..” — Helen Oyeyemi Point of view 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
“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
“Why can't we kill this panic, or do the other thing and make it mute?” — Helen Oyeyemi Mute Copy Share Image
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