Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I can share my experiences with people, and they identify with it and sing it back to me. That's the best feeling in the world.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' Yeah, that's what I look for.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

I need my 'art work' or 'entertainment work' or whatever to have empathy for or connection to the way I experience the world as a person.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

You can only stay connected if you feel connected.

And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.