Quotes by : Helen Oyeyemi

But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.

First you try to find a reason, try to understand what you've done so wrong so you can be sure not to....

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

School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better....

… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because....

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

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

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows.....

Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?It must be that they believe in....

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