Lauren Beukes Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes Famous Quotes & Sayings
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( ... ) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' ( ... ) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.
With the amount of sugar I'm doing, she's lucky I can remember the colour of my eyes without a mirror.
Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of
You can bury your radical magazines and tear up your sexually perverse sketches and burn your sheets. But how do you erase who you are?
I'm scared, Mom." ... "It's okay, honey. It's all right. That's the big secret, don't you know? Everyone is. All the time.
Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it's broken.
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.
Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.
The genuinely powerful, unlike the Vuyos of this world, don't give a fuck about making an impression.
Keep your options open, his parents told him, but they didn't tell him that growing older is about your options shutting down, one by one.
Being her friend was like going to a tropical island for a little fun in the sun, only to be kidnapped by terrorists.
I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.
Like Humpty Dumpty. At some point you have to pick up the pieces. Or walk away. Don't look back. Fuck the king's horses.
Don't get too close buddy ' I warn Sloth. Unofficially there's a code of conduct but animals are still animals. And animals can be assholes too.
The problem with chemistry is that it tends to blow things up. And she is already a chain of reactions building up inside.
You have to do the cutting yourself, to let out the pain inside. Getting someone else to slice you up is cheating.
This is the way the world is now. Everything is public. You have to find other people who understand.
Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.
But since Sloth I've been so monogamous I make the demonstration banana that AIDS educators use to show how to put on a condom, look slutty.
Sometime I think I'd like to torture him to death. Other times, I think I'd forgive him. Because that would be worse.
The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.
I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.
What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.
The problem is he didn't just burn his bridges when he left New York, he blew them up and napalmed the river.
Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there.
Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.