Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.

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.

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.

All through dinner Arturo and I held hands under the table like a couple of kids, and that made the dinner quite wonderful, even though Mrs. Fletcher kept staring at Olivia as though committing her to memory. It got so bad that Olivia turned to her husband and said: "Has it happened at last, Gerald? Have I become a curiosity?

I hate that my life is teaching me that I can only be loved if I put my love out of reach and just drift above people until they love my remoteness.

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