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Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

Even if she got her sums right and it turned out life owed her something, there was no way such a bill would ever be settled. Life isn’t illnatured; it’s just dirt poor, like any other public resource.

– Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

“I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.”

— Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

“He showed me my birth certificate. It was just like he’d showed me a gun - suddenly I was looking at something that had no life of its own but was stronger than me.”

— Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching