298 Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

Handmade and heartfelt; Harriet wanted everything she did to be like this.

The water was so cold on her skin that it felt dry.

I'm not saying I'm amazing or anything, but I'm decent-looking. Why shouldn't a decent-looking girl expect to be kissed?

Looking at those last photos was like flipping through a book of silence.

I miss her. So much that sometimes I'm scared I'll bring her back.

If her fingers touched the photograph it was hers. If it was out of her reach then it belonged to the room.

Do you want this ice cream?" he asked her, whisking the dish all around the tabletop. "I mean, do you truly want it? Would you fight for this ice cream? Would you bear a deep wound in order to possess this ice cream completely? How deep a wound? What if it was as deep as the grave? What does this ice cream really mean to you, Miss Cabrini?

My mother exaggerates as often as she can. I'm sure she would like nothing more than to be part of a Greek tragedy. She wouldn't even want a large part, she'd be perfectly content with a chorus role, warning that fate is coming to make havoc of all things.