“my heart stirring this way and that like so much hot soup,” — Helen Oyeyemi Hot soup Copy Share Image
“She was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who'd just come from the future but didn't want to brag about it.” — Helen Oyeyemi Heart Copy Share Image
I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them. — Helen Oyeyemi Alien 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
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
“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
“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.” — Helen Oyeyemi Mirrors Copy Share Image
“How did it go from "Füst should apologize to the woman he beat up" to "Füst should apologize to his fiancée" to… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Rowan's physical effect- godlike jawline, long-lashed eyes, umber skin, rakish quiff of hair- is that of lightening strike.” — Helen Oyeyemi 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 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
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 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
“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
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
I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.'… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long… — Helen Oyeyemi Friends Copy Share Image
A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“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
“Do you want this ice cream?" he asked her, whisking the dish all around the tabletop. "I mean, do you truly want… — 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
“No, I found her. I know she doesn't look like a puppet, but she is one. I know it because when I… — Helen Oyeyemi Habits 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 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
“People don’t make too much money around here, but what comes with that is a different definition of what it means to… — Helen Oyeyemi Billionaire Copy Share Image
“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.” I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I… — Helen Oyeyemi Fairy Copy Share Image
I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“Our favorite film is Vertigo . Amy Eleni and I must watch it seventeen or eighteen times a year, and with each… — Helen Oyeyemi Cinema Copy Share Image
“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
“Why can't we kill this panic, or do the other thing and make it mute?” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
