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She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in bed.
— Helen Oyeyemi
All around them people were speaking a language Brown didn't understand; it was like silence with sharp edges in it.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Marriage is no real excuse for not loving.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants.
— Helen Oyeyemi
If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Cities are fueled by the listless agony of workers providing services to other workers who barely acknowledge those services.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.
— Helen Oyeyemi
There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty.
— Helen Oyeyemi
And in time, and by being a good woman, and a patient woman, she would have won a good and patient man.
— Helen Oyeyemi
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
...she was herself entire, and knew she could not be consumed.
— Helen Oyeyemi
It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked for payment.
— Helen Oyeyemi
This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.
— Helen Oyeyemi
So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he'd said it: "I was a poet." As if the poet had died. He was hiding, perhaps.
— Helen Oyeyemi
In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.
— Helen Oyeyemi
She was only fifteen. At that age embarassment is something you can actually die of.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Daphne came in with her arms full of books, and her eyes blazing like two poisoned moons. How'd you like the mess St. John?
— Helen Oyeyemi
I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.
— Helen Oyeyemi
How long had the Doc been crazy? I don't know. Quite some time, I guess. Don't worry. He was only a general practitioner.
— Helen Oyeyemi
what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I have loved a fool who counted kisses, she thought.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I think the soul must be heavy and smooth, Myrna: I deduce this from the buoyant, jerky movements of puppets, which lack souls.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Sometimes our subconscious is so transparent it's boring
— Helen Oyeyemi
Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?
— Helen Oyeyemi
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
He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.
— Helen Oyeyemi
To the naked eye Boudicca is a haze of noxious green that lurks among fronds of seaweed looking exactly like the aftermath of a chemical spill.
— Helen Oyeyemi
It turns out that the average annoyed American only needs to pull three terrible faces before she feels better.
— Helen Oyeyemi
His dear face - his thrice-broken nose, his summer eyes.
— Helen Oyeyemi
My heart stirring this way and that like so much hot soup,
— Helen Oyeyemi
I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years ... but then I went to a library and it was okay.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I've always felt happy in my own company. It's only when I get around other people that things get sticky.
— Helen Oyeyemi
If I was afraid that something bad would happen, why wait? Why not make it happen now?
— Helen Oyeyemi
But also ... I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.
— Helen Oyeyemi
She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Most of the people who say beauty fades say it with a smirk. Fading is more than just expected, it's what they want to see. I don't.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.
— Helen Oyeyemi
The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my life is the way I want it to be.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
— Helen Oyeyemi
She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.
— Helen Oyeyemi
For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they're around mirrors.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.
— Helen Oyeyemi
The water is very green and has a sweet taste, both boys wrote in their diaries, at different times.
— Helen Oyeyemi
... there's a difference between having no one because you've chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.
— Helen Oyeyemi
So her missing person's poster features a girl with long hair and dreamy eyes that don't see the fracture coming.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Who's there?Something old? Someone holy ... ? — Helen Oyeyemi
You feel you've seen a hundred of me. You know how my tiny mind works. But maybe it goes both ways.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Last summer I spent almost an hour blowing dandelions off their stems towards him, so that he had a chance to wish for everything he wanted.
— Helen Oyeyemi
He kissed me like ice cream, like a jazz waltz, the rough, gentle way the sea washed sand off my skin on the hottest day of the year.
— Helen Oyeyemi
It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy ...
— Helen Oyeyemi
The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Chapter 12 title)
— Helen Oyeyemi
I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.
— Helen Oyeyemi
For my Mr. Fox(whoever you are) — Helen Oyeyemi
That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
— Helen Oyeyemi
White is for witching, a colour to be worn so that all other colours can enter you, so that you may use them. At a pinch, cream will do.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Were those exact words said: 'I no longer love you'?""No."
"No. Hardly anybody ever says it like that, do they? They simply become unkind. — Helen Oyeyemi
It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over.
— Helen Oyeyemi
How can you know me and want to die?
— Helen Oyeyemi
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
— Helen Oyeyemi
According to Stendhal it takes about a year and a month to fall in love, all being well.
— Helen Oyeyemi
People underestimate the freckled.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Rowan's physical effect- godlike jawline, long-lashed eyes, umber skin, rakish quiff of hair- is that of lightening strike.
— Helen Oyeyemi
A real writer has to be able to write about the body. They have to. It's where we live. So
— Helen Oyeyemi
Home is where your teapots are.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Maybe she grew one more in the night and that's why the night sleep was so deep, it was a matching pair of sleeps. -
— Helen Oyeyemi
The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Mami answers and her voice is hoarse and thin, and i think fight me better than this.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Wolves are hosting wedding feasts and witches are brushing their hair today." Presence
— Helen Oyeyemi
Be bad. Be wicked. And you should worry. But don't.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Oh, everyone's got a view, haven't they? .. Everyone's got something to say, she'd tell me..
— Helen Oyeyemi
