Author: Helen Oyeyemi

Cites

• Emily Dickinson (3)
  • IN: What is not Yours is not Yours (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: open me carefully
    FROM: written on an envelope containing a letter from Emily Dickinson to Susan Huntington Gilbert, (1852), Letter, US
  • IN: The Icarus Girl (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Alone I cannot be - For Hosts do visit me - Recordless Company …
    FROM: Alone, I cannot be, (None), Poem, US
  • IN: The Opposite House (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House, As lately as Today - I know it, by the numb look Such Houses have - alway -
    FROM: There's been a Death, in the Opposite House, (1896), Poem, US
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1)
  • IN: White is for Witching (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from Hell.
    FROM: "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell", (1963), Poem, US
• Mary Oliver (2)
  • IN: Mr Fox (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the darkness they wondered if they could do it, and knew they had to try to do it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], US
  • IN: Mr. Fox (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the darkness they wondered if they could do it, and knew they had to try to do it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Eleanor Ross Taylor (1)
  • IN: Boy, Snow, Bird (2013) Fantasy Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Wake, girl. Your head is becoming the pillow.
    FROM: Painting Remembered, (1968), Poem, US