Lauren Beukes Quotes
- 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…
- Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.
- I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns…
- 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.
- Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a…
- You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.
- Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.
- The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.
- 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…
- Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.
- She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams
- The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.
- Only other people can make you feel real.
- There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
- The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.
- Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
- Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there.