Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.

Because he says he can’t stand you and you act like you can’t stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something’s going on.

Crush

Mean

Men

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

Air

Light

Space

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

Children

Feelings

Logic

Home is where your teapots are.

Home

Teapots

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

Alive

Perfect

Saws

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

Connected

Feels

Finished

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

Hero

Missing

Old Lady

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don’t have names.

Calling

Different

Names

I think, basically, what I’m good for is reading – a lot.

Reading

Thinking

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Dangerous

Daughter

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Disappointment

Enough

Exercise

Eye

Feelings

Feels

Finding Yourself

Finished

Girl

Giving

Hero

Home

Hysteria

Ideals

Language

Light

Logic

Looks

Made

Matter

Mean

Meetings

Men

Miracle

Mirrors

Missing

Moments

Mother

Names

Noses

Often Is

Old Lady

Once Upon A Time

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People

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Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.

Because he says he can’t stand you and you act like you can’t stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something’s going on.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

Home is where your teapots are.

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don’t have names.

I think, basically, what I’m good for is reading – a lot.

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