“First you try to find a reason, try to understand what you've done so wrong so you can be sure not to… — Helen Oyeyemi Abuse Copy Share Image
“There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty. But who finds… — Helen Oyeyemi Happiness Copy Share Image
I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“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
“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 don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“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
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 like to hear the marching of typewriter keys, the shudder of the space bar, the metallic ding at the end of… — Helen Oyeyemi 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
“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 Conversation 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
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
