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?

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let....

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....

This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.

So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks."Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?""I'm....

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take....

Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.....