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Top Lauren Beukes Quotes

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1. "In the forest, they did things to drive us mad. Muti. Drugs. Rape. Killing Games. (...) God is not in the forest. Maybe He is too busy looking after sports teams or worrying about teenagers having sex before marriage. I think they take up a lot of His time." ~ Lauren Beukes
2. "I yank open the cutlery drawer to be confronted with an anomaly worse than emails from dead people or a man with a gun sitting on my bed. It's a large carving knife with a viciously serrated edge and two broken teeth. It's tarnished with rust. It's not mine. And neither is the china figurine of a kitten with one paw playfully raised, also stained with rust. But it's not rust. It's not rust at all. Perversely, the thought that flashes through my brain is "I can haz murder weapon?" I laugh out loud, a sobbing hiccup." ~ Lauren Beukes
3. "Oh, but fine isn't everything!' Rachel exclaims and grabs her hands and pulls her into a stepping foxtrot over the paintings, twirling her round. 'Fine is the very definition of mediocrity. It's what's polite. It's what's socially acceptable. We need to live brighter and deeper than just fine, my darling!" ~ Lauren Beukes
4. "But she was the kind of girl you couldn't keep down. Unless you cut her up and caved in her skull." ~ Lauren Beukes
5. "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
6. "We do this to ourselves. Society is a poisonous hamster wheel." ~ Lauren Beukes
7. "Affectionate violence. For when a hug just won't do. That's a Hallmark card for you." ~ Lauren Beukes
8. "Six foot eight and all asshole." ~ Lauren Beukes
9. "He adds, wistfully, "I don't suppose you have syphilis, do you?""No.""Pity. There's a study starting in Alabama that would have paid for all your medical care if you did. Although you'd have to be a Negro.""I'm not that, either.""Too bad." The doctor shrugs." ~ Lauren Beukes
10. "If you want to kiss me again, then shut the fuck up and stop bleeding to death" ~ Lauren Beukes
11. "It doesn't escape him that the rock holding it up is the perfect fit for his fist. Or how easily one of those needle spokes would slide right through the girl's eye like Jell-O." ~ Lauren Beukes
12. "Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting" ~ Lauren Beukes
13. "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
14. "And he's sorry he ever doubted the House. She's the one. One of the ones. His shining girls." ~ Lauren Beukes
15. "A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable." ~ Lauren Beukes
16. "But since Sloth I've been so monogamous I make the demonstration banana that AIDS educators use to show how to put on a condom, look slutty." ~ Lauren Beukes
17. "The genuinely powerful, unlike the Vuyos of this world, don't give a fuck about making an impression." ~ Lauren Beukes
18. "Like Humpty Dumpty. At some point you have to pick up the pieces. Or walk away. Don't look back. Fuck the king's horses." ~ Lauren Beukes
19. "You have to do the cutting yourself, to let out the pain inside. Getting someone else to slice you up is cheating." ~ Lauren Beukes
20. "There is aerated ink caked in the air vents from the printing presses that shake the whole building when they run. Some reporters have ink in their veins. The Sun-Times staff have ink in their lungs. Once in a while someone will complain to OSHA." ~ Lauren Beukes
21. "Shining stars linked together through time. A constellation of murder." ~ Lauren Beukes
22. "You can bury your radical magazines and tear up your sexually perverse sketches and burn your sheets. But how do you erase who you are?" ~ Lauren Beukes
23. "They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow" ~ Lauren Beukes
24. "obstreperous" ~ Lauren Beukes
25. "Lo peor es que se encuentra en un estado tan lamentable que las canciones pop han cobrado sentido." ~ Lauren Beukes
26. "problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it." ~ Lauren Beukes
27. "Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation." ~ Lauren Beukes
28. "I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort." ~ Lauren Beukes
29. "(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness." ~ Lauren Beukes
30. "She's even been practicing making out with the back of her hand. Which was about as effective as tickling yourself. It's why you needed other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real." ~ Lauren Beukes
31. "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
32. "She would disappearfolded like origamiinto her own dreams" ~ Lauren Beukes
33. "Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it." ~ Lauren Beukes
34. "Grown-up relationships are complicated. We got what we needed from each other. Passion. A safety net. Some kind of solace. It's lonely out there. But it ran its course. It was lovely while it lasted. But everything is finite. Life. Love. All this. Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness. - Rachel Mazrachi" ~ Lauren Beukes
35. "I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time." ~ Lauren Beukes
36. "It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction." ~ Lauren Beukes
37. "Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there." ~ Lauren Beukes
38. "What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours." ~ Lauren Beukes
39. "Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing." ~ Lauren Beukes
40. "Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women." ~ Lauren Beukes
41. "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
42. "Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it's broken." ~ Lauren Beukes
43. "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
44. "You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news." ~ Lauren Beukes
45. "Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you." ~ Lauren Beukes

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Mais les traditions familiales n'ont souvent pas de fondement plus solide , et les ethnologues me font bien rire qui cherchent la raison de tant de rites mystérieux . Le vrai mystère dans beaucoup de cas , c'est qu'il n'y a pas de raison du tout ."
Author: Albert Camus

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