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White is for Witching
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"White is for Witching" Quotes

A haunted house holds dark secrets for a troubled family in this eerie and atmospheric novel.

Quotes

I have lived more than a thousand lives. I have seen more than a thousand deaths. I have wept more times than I can count.

Helen Oyeyemi

lifeexperience

We are all in pieces, but maybe if we made ourselves smaller, the edges would fit together and we could be a person.

Helen Oyeyemi

self-reflectionidentity

I want to be strange, beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.

Helen Oyeyemi

braverybeauty

We are all, I think, just vessels of longing. But when we have fulfilled our purpose, we are too full to contain it.

Helen Oyeyemi

longingpurpose

There are some people who are meant to be loved and others to be left alone.

Helen Oyeyemi

lovesolitude

The only thing more terrifying than the unknown is the fear that whatever is unknown will never change.

Helen Oyeyemi

fearchange

There’s a side to me that I never want you to see. I am a monster, you understand.

Helen Oyeyemi

hidden sidedarkness

I am not a person who makes herself easy to know.

Helen Oyeyemi

mysteryintrospection

We can never escape the past, not really. We are what we are because of what we were, because of what we did.

Helen Oyeyemi

pastidentity

It’s a funny thing, finding yourself. You weren’t lost, but it can feel that way.

Helen Oyeyemi

self-discoveryjourney