“Being her friend was like going to a tropical island for a little fun in the sun, only to be kidnapped by… — Lauren Beukes Friendship Copy Share Image
“Fear festers in the imagination. It’s not fear’s fault. That’s just the way it’s made. Nightmares breed. Allies become enemies. Subversives are… — Lauren Beukes Fear Copy Share Image
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it… — Lauren Beukes Desperate Copy Share Image
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… — Lauren Beukes Fabulous Copy Share Image
So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff,… — Lauren Beukes Addict Copy Share Image
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has… — Lauren Beukes Am Copy Share Image
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds… — Lauren Beukes Affirmation Copy Share Image
“You can bury your radical magazines and tear up your sexually perverse sketches and burn your sheets. But how do you erase… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams — Lauren Beukes Disappear Copy Share Image
“That's what I thought" he said. "It doesn't change anything, Zinzi". He moved to kiss me, but as I tilted my head… — Lauren Beukes Last night Copy Share Image
“You have to do the cutting yourself, to let out the pain inside. Getting someone else to slice you up is cheating.” — Lauren Beukes Cutting yourself Copy Share Image
“Anyone can find they've been standing on the trapdoor when they thought they were the spotlight attraction.” — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time. — Lauren Beukes Africa Copy Share Image
“But she was the kind of girl you couldn't keep down. Unless you cut her up and caved in her skull.” — Lauren Beukes Kind of girl Copy Share Image
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. — Lauren Beukes Fairy Copy Share Image
Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you. — Lauren Beukes Different Copy Share Image
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into… — Lauren Beukes About Copy Share Image
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting. — Lauren Beukes Interesting Copy Share Image
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. — Lauren Beukes Life Copy Share Image
“In the forest, they did things to drive us mad. Muti. Drugs. Rape. Killing Games. (...) God is not in the forest.… — Lauren Beukes Having sex Copy Share Image
“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 Fear Copy Share Image
“The post-divorce lines around Gabby's mouth tugged down her whole face. She suddenly looks older. Older than the image Layla carries in… — Lauren Beukes Cops Copy Share Image
Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you… — Lauren Beukes Democratic Copy Share Image
