Quotes by : Lauren Beukes

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What’s that got to do with the heart?

They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it....

The original stories are mined out, and all that’s left is fool’s gold.

She's even been practicing making out with the back of her hand. Which was about as effective as tickling....

You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking....

Only other people can make you feel real.

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the....

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.