Famous Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

  • A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can’t stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious. – Helen Oyeyemi

    A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can’t stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.– Helen Oyeyemi

  • She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess. – Helen Oyeyemi

    She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.– 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

    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

  • But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with. – Helen Oyeyemi

    But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.– 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

    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

  • It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one. – 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

  • 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

    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

  • Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span. – Helen Oyeyemi

    Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.– Helen Oyeyemi