“Most of the people who say beauty fades say it with a smirk. Fading is more than just expected, it’s what they… — Helen Oyeyemi Beauty Copy Share Image
“What do you want, Mary Foxe? My husband?" “I believe in him," she said slowly. I wondered if she’d ever told him… — Helen Oyeyemi Believe Copy Share Image
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules. — Helen Oyeyemi Chopping 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 Kind 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
Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . . — Helen Oyeyemi Inspirational Copy Share Image
“We’re friendly toward strangers because of a general belief (I don’t know where it comes from) that we’re born strangers and that… — Helen Oyeyemi Faith Copy Share Image
“When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it ’til the end, and somewhere along the line… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as… — Helen Oyeyemi About Copy Share Image
I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to… — Helen Oyeyemi Anything 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
“Why can't we kill this panic, or do the other thing and make it mute?” — Helen Oyeyemi 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
The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my… — Helen Oyeyemi Everything Copy Share Image
I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we… — Helen Oyeyemi Code Copy Share Image
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. — Helen Oyeyemi Meetings 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
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 Above Copy Share Image
I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it… — Helen Oyeyemi Awful Copy Share Image
Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to… — Helen Oyeyemi About Copy Share Image
“Glad you like it- I don't know what this song is called, but it's probably quite a bit older than we are.… — Helen Oyeyemi Truth Copy Share Image
Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still… — Helen Oyeyemi Filled Copy Share Image
“When the hysteric saw what the suffragists had done--the way that en masse they'd turned starvation onto its side--she must have been… — Helen Oyeyemi Communication Copy Share Image
“She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until… — Helen Oyeyemi Anger Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you laughed, and then my glove puppet would weep piteously. When you took the glove puppet he alternated between flirtatious and… — Helen Oyeyemi History Copy Share Image
