Quotes by : Helen Oyeyemi

With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between....

In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze....

The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And to....

The wooden devil got a good laugh out of the ones who passed by, though. They were so funny she couldn't....

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed....

She found Safiye leaning against an oil lantern out in the garden and saw for herself that she wasn't....

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back....

I drew a chair up beside her and sang. All I do is dream of you the whole night through . . . It was....

Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I....

What do you want, Mary Foxe? My husband?" “I believe in him," she said slowly. I wondered if she’d....