“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 Copy Share Image
“And she told Monste all about it as she poured coffee into vases for them both. (It was true! It was true!)” — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“There were days when she’d open her eyes and be him for six hours in a row; she knew all his secrets… — Helen Oyeyemi Happiness Copy Share Image
“What you're doing is building a horrible kind of logic. People read what you write and they say, 'Yes, he is talking… — Helen Oyeyemi Beautiful woman 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 Copy Share Image
“...there’s a part of my heart or mind, or some spot where the two meet, a spot that isn’t mine because I’m… — Helen Oyeyemi Body love Copy Share Image
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than… — Helen Oyeyemi Always Copy Share Image
“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
“There are still days when I can only work out whether or not I'm upset by looking at my face.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“It was snowing when I got off the bus at Flax Hill. Not quite regular snowfall, not exactly a blizzard. This is… — Helen Oyeyemi Blizzard Copy Share Image
Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name)… — Helen Oyeyemi Calling 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
“ The water is very green and has a sweet taste, both boys wrote in their diaries, at different times.” — Helen Oyeyemi Different times 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
Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that… — Helen Oyeyemi Attractive Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Fletcher tells Mom over and over that she should be making more conversation with me, because apparently I'm at a "dangerous… — Helen Oyeyemi First time 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 Fear Copy Share Image
“I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library… — Helen Oyeyemi Libraries Copy Share Image
“Mostly, when Jess didn't want to talk about her ideas in class, Colleen thought that Jess was showing off, making sure that… — Helen Oyeyemi Butterflies 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 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 Copy Share Image
