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Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What’s that got to do with the heart?

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Explosions Heart Robots

This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Family

The dream knows what they are waiting for, even if they don’t themselves.The end of everything.The moment when it reveals its miracle boy and all the eyes will look and their seeing will be horror and glory and wonder and it will pierce the skin of the world, collapse dimensions, and open the doors and the work will breathe and dance in his shoes and the dream will be able to escape.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Dimensions Dream Wonder Work World

Only other people can make you feel real.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Reality

He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Legs Muse Sex

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Happiness Life Love Sadness

You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the time.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Memory

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

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Lauren Beukes Forgetting Memory

Visibility limits your imagination of the ocean only as far as you can see, ten metres, fifteen at a stretch. But it's only in the utter black that you can feel the true scale, the volume and weight of that gaping unknowable drift between continents.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Darkness Night Diving

you're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Culture Tradition

She's even been practicing making out with the back of her hand. Which was about as effective as tickling yourself. It's why you needed other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Feelings Kissing Lonliness

The original stories are mined out, and all that’s left is fool’s gold.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Fool S Gold Stories

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

Lauren Beukes Perspective Profound

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

Lauren Beukes Democracy Johannesburg South Africa Traffic

I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Hell Humor Rehab

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Fashion Personae Personal Style Personality Style

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.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Devil Dope Fear

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

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes South African Urban Fantasy

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.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Cookies Crazy People Customer Service Insanity Work

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

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Laughter Love

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

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Journalism Media

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

Lauren Beukes Chaos Pattern Recognition Randomness

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

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Being Others Reality

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

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Broken Heart Scars Wounds
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