Peaces Quotes

“You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose favour you seek will even be there once you somehow put that path strewn with sensory confetti and emotional gore behind you. And then, by some stroke of fortune, the gauntlet concludes, the person does exist after all, and you become that perpetually astonished lover from so many of the songs you used to find endlessly disingenuous.

[Otto Shin]”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces

“I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces

“We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces

“lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces