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Helen Oyeyemi

"Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me, the one that hangs om a hook like an empty jacket and flutters with disappointment that I cannot wear her all the time. I call her my hysteric, and this personal hysteric of mine is designer made (though I'm not sure who made her), flattering and comfortable, attractive even, if you're around people who like that sort of thing. She is not anyone, my hysteric; she is blank, electricity dancing around a filament, singing to kill."

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.29, A&C Black

Helen Oyeyemi

#Girl Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #Hysteria Quotes

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