Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox Quotes
He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.
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[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]
She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.
I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.
… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.