The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. — Lauren Beukes Fairy Copy Share Image
What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours. — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction. — Lauren Beukes Fiction Copy Share Image
“The genuinely powerful, unlike the Vuyos of this world, don't give a fuck about making an impression.” — Lauren Beukes 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
“And he's sorry he ever doubted the House. She's the one. One of the ones. His shining girls.” — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.” — Lauren Beukes Being Copy Share Image
The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right… — Lauren Beukes 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
“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
“In the forest, they did things to drive us mad. Muti. Drugs. Rape. Killing Games. (...) God is not in the forest.… — Lauren Beukes Forest Copy Share Image
I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had… — Lauren Beukes Africa 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
“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
“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
“I yank open the cutlery drawer to be confronted with an anomaly worse than emails from dead people or a man with… — Lauren Beukes Cutlery Copy Share Image
“Oh, but fine isn't everything!' Rachel exclaims and grabs her hands and pulls her into a stepping foxtrot over the paintings, twirling… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“You'd think I would know better than to get involved with someone in my own department. But I'm really crap at resisting… — Lauren Beukes 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
“Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. Watch any kid and how he… — Lauren Beukes 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 Copy Share Image
“Grown-up relationships are complicated. We got what we needed from each other. Passion. A safety net. Some kind of solace. It's lonely… — Lauren Beukes Love 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 Copy Share Image
“We do this to ourselves. Society is a poisonous hamster wheel.” — Lauren Beukes Hamster wheel Copy Share Image
“(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.” — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. — Lauren Beukes 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
“Shining stars linked together through time. A constellation of murder.” — Lauren Beukes Astronomy Copy Share Image
