“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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“...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
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
“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
“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
However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my… — Helen Oyeyemi Authority 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
“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 would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come… — Helen Oyeyemi Come Copy Share Image
“Where do you see yourself in ten years’ time?” she asked. My answer: “Not sure, but maybe on a beach reading a… — Helen Oyeyemi Time Copy Share Image
“I was learning the ways of the world; one of them being that the presence of a certain type of curly-haired man… — Helen Oyeyemi Curly Copy Share Image
“He answered with a smile. The darkest and most malignant I had ever seen, too strong to be voluntary. The door, I… — Helen Oyeyemi Malignant 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
“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
“Books. I am attracted and repelled; books are conversations that are not addressed to me and I want to sneak up and… — Helen Oyeyemi Attracted Copy Share Image
“It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked… — Helen Oyeyemi Costly 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 Nostalgic Copy Share Image
“I can’t explain, maybe it isn’t something that needs explaining, how the sight of a broken cage just puts you up on… — Helen Oyeyemi Cage Copy Share Image
“I drew a chair up beside her and sang. All I do is dream of you the whole night through . .… — Helen Oyeyemi Dreams 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 Attention 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
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
It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out… — Helen Oyeyemi Feel 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
“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
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