Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist renowned for her innovative storytelling and blending of fantasy with reality. Born in Nigeria in 1984, she moved to the UK as a child. Oyeyemi published her first novel, "The Icarus Girl," at 20. Her works, including "White is for Witching" and "Boy, Snow, Bird," explore themes of identity and folklore, earning her critical acclaim and a dedicated readership worldwide.
Book summaries for books written by Helen Oyeyemi
Quotes
You don't have to like your family, but you do have to love them.
It's easier to think of others as ciphers, rather than as people. That's the risk of turning people into stories. But it's also the reason we can't get enough of hearing about one another.
It wasn't the absence of fear that made her strong, but the decision that something else was more important.
The heart's not the only place where people are broken.
There's very little that doesn't get easier to deal with if you think about it as a story.
The world can't ever be as bad as it seems.
The thing about ghosts is that they're all about the past, and so is the past. And the future? The future is all about the present.
You can't be a monster and a coward at the same time.
Sometimes we need to play the fool so that people can tell us what they really think.
Kindness is a kind of honesty. It's a way of telling the truth, or a way of recognizing it.
You can't be an enchantress and a realist at the same time.
The worst thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.