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Helen Oyeyemi

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

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  • catalina creelje citiralaпре 5 година
    open me carefully
    —written on an envelope containing a letter from Emily Dickinson to Susan Huntington Gilbert, June 11, 1852
  • Habitante de libroje citiralaпре 5 година
    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 libroje citiralaпре 5 година
    you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.
  • Habitante de libroje citiralaпре 5 година
    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 . . .
  • Habitante de libroje citiralaпре 5 година
    He’d been told that the key to a real apology was the identification of one’s real mistake.
  • Habitante de libroje citiralaпре 5 година
    To you who sleep a lot because you are bored
  • Habitante de libroje citiralaпре 5 година
    According to Stendhal it takes about a year and a month to fall in love, all being well.
  • Habitante de libroje citiralaпре 5 година
    Señor Artiga and Señora Valdes were lovers with the tacit consent of his wife and her husband.
  • catalina creelje citiralaпре 7 година
    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 creelje citiralaпре 7 година
    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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