Lauren Beukes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Moving #Thinking #Jam
Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Fashion #Skins #Different
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 is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.
-- Lauren Beukes

#People #Mind #Want
World needs more angels, even plywood ones.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Angel #Needs #World
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Justice #Fairy Tale #Fairy
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Secret #Three #Secret Life
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Morning #News
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 a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Media #Wings #Trying
I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Stars #Believe #Dna
Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Wheels
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 be random.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Order #Trying #Patterns
Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
-- Lauren Beukes

#Memories #Forget
The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Memories #Locks #Snapshots
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Interesting #Plot #World
Only other people can make you feel real.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Real #People #Feels
The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.
-- Lauren Beukes

#War #Relentless #Loud
She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams
-- Lauren Beukes

#Dream #Origami #Disappear
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 to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.
-- Lauren Beukes

#Ems #Answers #Body

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