53 Quotes About Helen-oyeyemi

Miranda waited, then said, 'But what will I do for a whole year?'Neither of them answered her. She supposed the answer was, Get better. The thought of a slow and measured crawl back to health filled her with black sand.

Easy to see the solution when you're not in the story, isn't it.

Our exchanges always seem to turn into whatever he wants them to.

There are real books all around the house, everywhere. She could pick one up and in mere seconds she could be involved in something that makes her laugh and feel nervous and hot and cold and forgive the world its absurdity.

Hers were gloriously improbable tales, stuffed with happy coincidences, eternal devotion, and the unwavering recognition of inner beauty.

Mary. If you were real I'd run away with you forever.

At that time I had to keep meeting people and meeting people in case one of them was someone I could marry.

I was always weak in the head—that must be it. I can't seem to care anymore about what I'm supposed to do.

The night was very stark, alternate streams of town cars and chequered taxicabs, blaring horns busily staking claims—here is the road and here is the sidewalk. But the road looked so much livelier, what if I tried the road?