“ 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 hipste… Lauren Beukes
“ Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch. Lauren Beukes
“ It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. 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 be random. Lauren Beukes
“ 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
“ Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time. 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 to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. P… Lauren Beukes
“ I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort. Lauren Beukes
“ 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
“ Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of Lauren Beukes
“ 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 fee… Lauren Beukes
“ You're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture. Lauren Beukes
“ Visibility limits your imagination of the ocean only as far as you can see, ten metres, fifteen at a stretch. But it's only in the utter black that you can feel the true scale, the volume and weight o… Lauren Beukes
“ You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the… Lauren Beukes
“ (…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness. Lauren Beukes
