What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”
“A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.”
“With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.”
“To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. - Chunyang Hee ("sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea)”
“She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.”
“I remember Mum repeatedly telling us we had good hearts and good brains. When she said that we'd say 'thanks' and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.”
“To have seen your lips and not ever kissed them would have been the ruin of me…”
“Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.”
“cities are fueled by the listless agony of workers providing services to other workers who barely acknowledge those services.”
“How will I know I've grown up? When I've started using words I didn't really know the meaning of. I said I did that already and she said yes but I worried about it and grown-ups didn't.”
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Book Keywords:
gender, library, mothers, love, gender-equality, family, night, children, romance, feminism, beauty, books, inheritance, boys-and-girls
