Perfect fit Quote by Lauren Beukes

“Being her friend was like going to a tropical island for a little fun in the sun, only to be kidnapped by terrorists.”

— Lauren Beukes

“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 everywhere. Paranoia…

— Lauren Beukes

Only other people can make you feel real.

— Lauren Beukes

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…

— Lauren Beukes

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…

— Lauren Beukes

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…

— Lauren Beukes

Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped…

— Lauren Beukes

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There…

— Lauren Beukes

“You can bury your radical magazines and tear up your sexually perverse sketches and burn your sheets. But how do you erase who you…

— Lauren Beukes

She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams

— Lauren Beukes

“That's what I thought" he said. "It doesn't change anything, Zinzi". He moved to kiss me, but as I tilted my head up, he…

— Lauren Beukes

“You have to do the cutting yourself, to let out the pain inside. Getting someone else to slice you up is cheating.”

— Lauren Beukes