"Imagine having a mother who worries that you……" — Helen Oyeyemi

"Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line."

— Helen Oyeyemi

35 Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows.…
The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your…
Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.
You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that…
Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be…
So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest…
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?
Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and…
Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the…

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