"I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple."

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Helen Oyeyemi

#Hero Quotes #Missing Quotes #Old Lady Quotes

“The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.”
“We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.”
“All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.”
“Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.”
“People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.”
“When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.”
“We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.”
“It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision.”

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