And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.

- Helen Oyeyemi

You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

- Helen Oyeyemi

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then…

- Helen Oyeyemi

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

- Helen Oyeyemi

Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holdin…

- Helen Oyeyemi

Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from w…

- Helen Oyeyemi

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

- Helen Oyeyemi

Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestatio…

- Helen Oyeyemi

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighte…

- Helen Oyeyemi