“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
“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
Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions… — Helen Oyeyemi About 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 Copy Share Image
I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands. — Helen Oyeyemi Demand Copy Share Image
I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who'd… — Helen Oyeyemi Being Copy Share Image
“... it's not whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness. Same goes if you swap whiteness out… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. — Helen Oyeyemi Inspirational 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
“Sometimes I say terrible things to him because I don't want him to know I'm sad; sometimes I fly off the handle… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“She told him that she had looked after him because of the white hairs on his forehead that grew into the shape… — Helen Oyeyemi Fox 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
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
The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live;… — Helen Oyeyemi Allowed Copy Share Image
“While waiting for her to phone me at school I'd feel seconds bursting inside me and leaving clouds. That won't come again—it… — Helen Oyeyemi Closeness 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
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
“have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well,… — Helen Oyeyemi Better place Copy Share Image
“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.” — Helen Oyeyemi Ancestors 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
The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected… — Helen Oyeyemi Catholic Copy Share Image
“She isn't a storm or a leader or a king or a war or anyone whose life and death makes noise. The… — Helen Oyeyemi Death Copy Share Image
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