Lauren Beukes Quotes

Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.

They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow

Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.

So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks."Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?""I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.