Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.

His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

My heart beat Beats me senselessly Why's everything Gotta be so intense with me.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.