Helen Oyeyemi Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Mother, People, Worry

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Mirrors, Years, Trustworthy

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now Ive decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Reading, Character, Fiction

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• The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Catholic, Language, Consciousness

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• So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I'm just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  People, Wish, Kind

  "Oyeyemi's 'Opposite House'". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.

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• I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Reading, Thinking

  "I didn't know I was writing a novel" by Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2005.

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• 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

  Anger, House, Littles

  Helen Oyeyemi (2007). “The Icarus Girl”, p.189, Anchor

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• 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.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Crush, Mean, Men

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Looks, Dangerous

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Icarus Girl”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Children, Feelings, Logic

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• That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Once Upon A Time, Meetings, Ideals

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I can be another thing; I’m meant to be another thing.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Snow, Made, Bigs

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Order, Sometimes, Moments

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• The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Names, Different, Calling

  Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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