Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

I am someone who gets pretty worked up.

Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.

The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Yet its taste was far from sweet.

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

Do you get the anger that is out here?

My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn’t mad at her, but if he was she couldn’t blame him. If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

I understand a fury in your words But not your words.