Quote by Helen Oyeyemi Download Open image ““Why can't we kill this panic, or do the other thing and make it mute?”” — Helen Oyeyemi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“This is, of course, how they want us: panicked, weak, and separated. We are easier to kill that way.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I am afraid of silence. Silence creates a pathway to peace through pain, the pain of a distracted and frantic mind before it becomes… — Terry Tempest Williams When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice Copy Share Image
“Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.” — Sarah Miller 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 take your… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. — 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 be well-off.… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“He looked honored, extraordinarily honored, seeming to care for that which tore his flesh than he did for the flesh itself, embracing the blade… — 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 are the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
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“After half an hour the Senora emerged, short of breath, with flushed cheeks....as uf she'd been seized and shaken like a faulty thermometer.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Pops says he loves me just the way I am, but not everyone in the world is like my father. Maman, for example. A… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
