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Everyone is broken.
— Lauren Beukes
( ... ) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' ( ... ) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.
— Lauren Beukes
Six foot eight and all asshole.
— Lauren Beukes
We do this to ourselves. Society is a poisonous hamster wheel.
— Lauren Beukes
Good manners will do that; turn a situation around. You got to treat people like people.
— Lauren Beukes
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
— Lauren Beukes
And he's sorry he ever doubted the House. She's the one. One of the ones. His shining girls.
— Lauren Beukes
With the amount of sugar I'm doing, she's lucky I can remember the colour of my eyes without a mirror.
— Lauren Beukes
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
— Lauren Beukes
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?
— Lauren Beukes
Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.
— Lauren Beukes
Only other people can make you feel real.
— Lauren Beukes
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.
— Lauren Beukes
Hell isn't other people, it's other parents.
— Lauren Beukes
I think Canada probably has an embargo on dicks." "That's why they're so nice. No dicks allowed.
— Lauren Beukes
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.
— Lauren Beukes
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.
— Lauren Beukes
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.
— Lauren Beukes
The genuinely powerful, unlike the Vuyos of this world, don't give a fuck about making an impression.
— Lauren Beukes
Affectionate violence. For when a hug just won't do. That's a Hallmark card for you.
— Lauren Beukes
She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams
— Lauren Beukes
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.
— Lauren Beukes
No one said it would be pretty, yanking despair out of a woman.
— Lauren Beukes
The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.
— Lauren Beukes
He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.
— Lauren Beukes
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.
— Lauren Beukes
I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.
— Lauren Beukes
Being her friend was like going to a tropical island for a little fun in the sun, only to be kidnapped by terrorists.
— Lauren Beukes
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.
— Lauren Beukes
She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.
— Lauren Beukes
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.
— Lauren Beukes
The problem with chemistry is that it tends to blow things up. And she is already a chain of reactions building up inside.
— Lauren Beukes
Life lesson: looks plus don't-give-a-fuck confidence mean you can have anything you want - any
— Lauren Beukes
Fresh starts don't come with expired relationships attached
— Lauren Beukes
You have to do the cutting yourself, to let out the pain inside. Getting someone else to slice you up is cheating.
— Lauren Beukes
This is the way the world is now. Everything is public. You have to find other people who understand.
— Lauren Beukes
But she was the kind of girl you couldn't keep down. Unless you cut her up and caved in her skull.
— Lauren Beukes
World needs more angels, even plywood ones.
— Lauren Beukes
What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.
— Lauren Beukes
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.
— Lauren Beukes
Sometime I think I'd like to torture him to death. Other times, I think I'd forgive him. Because that would be worse.
— Lauren Beukes
The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.
— Lauren Beukes
I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.
— Lauren Beukes
Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.
— Lauren Beukes
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.
— Lauren Beukes
Fear makes you ugly.
— Lauren Beukes
in his memory, Instagrams really, because
— Lauren Beukes
Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.
— Lauren Beukes
I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.
— Lauren Beukes
This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.
— Lauren Beukes
The problem is he didn't just burn his bridges when he left New York, he blew them up and napalmed the river.
— Lauren Beukes
Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there.
— Lauren Beukes
Today's Oak tree are tomorrows Nut that stood his ground.
— Roelof Beukes
WWCD. What would George Clooney do?
— Lauren Beukes
