298 Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

Miss Foxe occasionally wondered if she spent her life approaching invisibility and had finally arrived at it.

No, this is pretty much the same version I read," I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I imagine that from time to time some similar situation has led governments to declare war." pg.57

If love diminishes, it quickly fails and rarely revives.

With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.

And that was what all the expressions felt like— masks. I didn’t believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were never at odds with his subject matter.

It turns out that the average annoyed American only needs to pull three terrible faces before she feels better.

She thought I hadn't seen her, but she's no good at hiding her intentions. She can't help tiptoeing around with a finger to her lips at key moments.

First you try to find a reason, try to understand what you've done so wrong so you can be sure not to do it anymore. After that you look for signs of a Jekyll and Hyde situation, the good and the bad in a person sifted into separate compartments by some weird accident. Then, gradually, you realize that there isn't a reason, and it isn't two people you're dealing with, just one. The same one every time.

Most nights she went with the moon, and when it was round she stayed in my biggest bedroom and wouldn’t answer the thing that asked her to let it out(let you out from where?let me out from the small, the hot, the take me out of the fire i am ready i am hard like the stones you ate, bitter like those husks)the moonlight striped her, marked out places where the whispering thing would slip through and she would unfold.