#helen oyeyemi
“Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy.”
– Helen Oyeyemi
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“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.”
Review:http://monireading.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/lieblichbuch-helen-oyeyemi-mr-fox/
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““Please tell 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 what, though?” “From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn’t really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like ‘happy’ and ‘good’ will never find her.” “You don’t want her to be happy and good?” “I’m not sure what’s really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.””—White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (via jon-snow)
Moodboard: A Libra Winter Book List.
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
- Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi.
- Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood.
- Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman.
- A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.
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Moodboard: A Pisces Winter Book List.
- Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch.
- Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi.
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
- Nox by Anne Carson.
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
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