She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams — Lauren Beukes Disappear Copy Share Image
“We do this to ourselves. Society is a poisonous hamster wheel.” — Lauren Beukes Hamster wheel 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
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. — Lauren Beukes Life Copy Share Image
“Being her friend was like going to a tropical island for a little fun in the sun, only to be kidnapped by… — Lauren Beukes Friend 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
“Like Humpty Dumpty. At some point you have to pick up the pieces. Or walk away. Don't look back. Fuck the king's… — Lauren Beukes Eggs in one basket 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
“...with the amount of sugar I’m doing, she’s lucky I can remember the colour of my eyes without a mirror.” — Lauren Beukes Mirror Copy Share Image
“I hate golf. It's the genteel version of seal-clubbing, only not as much fun.” — Lauren Beukes Clubbing Copy Share Image
“Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each… — Lauren Beukes Devil 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 Perverse Copy Share Image
“But since Sloth I've been so monogamous I make the demonstration banana that AIDS educators use to show how to put on… — Lauren Beukes 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
“They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that… — Lauren Beukes Bubonic plague Copy Share Image
I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do,… — Lauren Beukes Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even… — Lauren Beukes Baggage 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
“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
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
“He adds, wistfully, "I don't suppose you have syphilis, do you?" "No." "Pity. There's a study starting in Alabama that would have… — Lauren Beukes Education 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 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
“Anyone can find they've been standing on the trapdoor when they thought they were the spotlight attraction.” — Lauren Beukes Attraction Copy Share Image
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news. — Lauren Beukes Morning Copy Share Image
“Shining stars linked together through time. A constellation of murder.” — Lauren Beukes Astronomy 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
“Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's… — Lauren Beukes Cookies 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
“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
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
“Fine is the very definition of mediocrity. It's what's polite. It's what's socially acceptable. We need to live brighter and deeper than… — Lauren Beukes Fine 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
