Helen Oyeyemi Quotes about Heart

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 frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue

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 frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

Helen Oyeyemi

Powerful, Heart, Tough

Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.171, Pan Macmillan

However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back.

Helen Oyeyemi

Disappointment, Heart, Storm

The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways.

Helen Oyeyemi

Girl, Heart, Cutting

Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

Helen Oyeyemi Quotes about Heart

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