"Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holdi… - Helen Oyeyemi

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.

He's awful. He was obviously . . . what's the term . . . 'disappointed in love' at some point. He probably never smiled again. The pages are just bursting with his longing for women to suffer. If he ever met me he'd probably punch me on the nose.

“And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship.