Helen Oyeyemi

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

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  • catalina creelhas quoted5 years ago
    open me carefully
    —written on an envelope containing a letter from Emily Dickinson to Susan Huntington Gilbert, June 11, 1852
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    Consent is a downward motion, I think—a leap or a fall—and whether they’ll admit it or not, even the most decisive people can find themselves unable to tell whether or not their consent was freely given.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.
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    And I had to have a kiss from you: To have seen your lips and not ever kissed them would have been the ruin of me . . .
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    He’d been told that the key to a real apology was the identification of one’s real mistake.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    To you who sleep a lot because you are bored
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    According to Stendhal it takes about a year and a month to fall in love, all being well.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted5 years ago
    Señor Artiga and Señora Valdes were lovers with the tacit consent of his wife and her husband.
  • catalina creelhas quoted7 years ago
    He’d warned himself not to behave like everybody else who came within ten paces of her, but once as the lokum melted away he found himself murmuring to her: I remember a dawn when my heart / got tied in a lock of your hair.
  • catalina creelhas quoted7 years ago
    In fact she resembled a man her mother had secretly loved for years, a man her mother had never so much as spoken to until the day the tyrant decided to have his wife Eirini the First stoned for adultery. He did give her a chance, one chance. He asked her to explain why his eyesight kept telling him that his daughter was in fact the child of another man, but the woman only answered that there was no explanation.
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