Helen Oyeyemi - Boy, Snow, Bird (2014)

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Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

Helen Oyeyemi

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy...

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Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it's no big deal that I'm not like Snow. I can be another thing; I'm meant to be another thing.

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You don't return people's smiles—it's perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

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That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

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Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

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