“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
“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.” — Helen Oyeyemi Mirrors Copy Share Image
I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands. — Helen Oyeyemi Demands 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
“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
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
“If you've...got someone within ten minutes' walk who can make you laugh and someone else within a five-minute walk who can help… — Helen Oyeyemi Millionaire 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
“I told her that magic spells only work until the person under the spell is really and honestly tired of it. It… — Helen Oyeyemi Magic 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
“I’ve always had a hard time figuring out what the moral of a story is supposed to be, and she was bound… — Helen Oyeyemi College 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
“I watched wealthy men and their wives and dates dancing and playing cards and making deals: I will admire you exactly as… — Helen Oyeyemi Money Copy Share Image
In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the… — Helen Oyeyemi Bells Copy Share Image
“Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do, they eat each other up. It is the same with one person… — Helen Oyeyemi Friendship Copy Share Image
Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind,… — Helen Oyeyemi Butterfly Copy Share Image
I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi About Copy Share Image
“But the shrieking went on and on, primal, almost glad—this protest was righteous. I couldn’t make up my mind whether the baby… — Helen Oyeyemi Protest Copy Share Image
“I think Poe's quite good, actually. The whole casual horror thing. Like someone standing next to you and screaming their head off… — Helen Oyeyemi Afraid of death Copy Share Image
“On a dais in a London church, the Virgin Mary sits suprised by a rough crest of candlelight. The discomforture isn't in… — Helen Oyeyemi Artist 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 Bacon 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
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 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
“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 Failing Copy Share Image
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not… — Helen Oyeyemi Big deal Copy Share Image
“He was talented, at an age when other boys were horrible kissers, just horrible and sloppy. I was fourteen then, and he… — Helen Oyeyemi Helen-oyeyemi 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
“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
“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
“A rustle handle turning, or a wooden door forced open until its hinges buckle, or to me, to me it was the… — Helen Oyeyemi Hear Trees Copy Share Image
If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches… — Helen Oyeyemi Finding yourself Copy Share Image
“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet." As if the poet had… — Helen Oyeyemi Personalities 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 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
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
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
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
“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
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