“Dear Miranda Silver, This house is bigger than you know! There are extra floors, with lots of people in them. They are… — Helen Oyeyemi Ghosts Copy Share Image
“There was a framed photograph hung on the wall in front of me, and when I said your name I saw you… — Helen Oyeyemi Black and white Copy Share Image
“Last summer I spent almost an hour blowing dandelions off their stems towards him, so that he had a chance to wish… — Helen Oyeyemi Dandelions 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.” — Helen Oyeyemi Gingerbread 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
“I told her that magic spells only work until the person under the spell is really and honestly tired of it. It… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“How will I know I've grown up? When I've started using words I didn't really know the meaning of. I said I… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“I bought a brown-skinned glove puppet. He came with a little black briefcase and his hair was parted exactly down the middle.… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Mami answers and her voice is hoarse and thin, and i think fight me better than this .” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“A house of stone and glass and iron should be stark and sober, a watchtower from which a benevolent guard is kept… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Always Copy Share Image
“And all the while there was the theater of my hands. It was theater, in that it was the performance of something… — Helen Oyeyemi Time Copy Share Image
“I was on my out and they thought they were helping me; instead they turned motion and intellible speech into a currency… — Helen Oyeyemi Communication Copy Share Image
“I'm not lying to you," she said, shaking her head. "I really can't do it." "You can and you must," they snapped.… — Helen Oyeyemi Writing 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 Living Copy Share Image
I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I… — Helen Oyeyemi Because Copy Share Image
“Well, she keeps an eye on big journeys from the interior to the exterior, or vice versa. She's there for the steps… — Helen Oyeyemi Past present Copy Share Image
“my heart stirring this way and that like so much hot soup,” — Helen Oyeyemi Hot soup Copy Share Image
