Helen Oyeyemi, White Is For Witching Quotes

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.

But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.