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Lauren Beukes Quotes

born 1976 South Africa

Lauren Beukes (born 5 June 1976) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter.

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Hell isn't other people, it's other parents.

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless with a terrible fury all its own.

No one said it would be pretty, yanking despair out of a woman.

She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams.

Fresh starts don't come with expired relationships attached.

The axles of corruption are greased with donut glaze.

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.

You think fear eats up your capacity for wonder, but the awe cuts through her dulled and dimmed mind. Almost a religious experience.

And the bitch about the new world order: it requires money, same as the old one. She feels betrayed by all the apocalypses of pop culture that promised abandoned cities ripe for the looting.

The world is condensing, attention spans narrowing to tiny screens, and there are people who are wittier and smarter, who know how to write for those nanospaces.

An empty house feels a certain way. Ripe with absence.

Affectionate violence. For when a hug just won't do.

She was always bad cop in the family, setting rules and boundaries as if parenting wasn’t the worst game of improve ever.

Time heals all wounds. Wounds clot, eventually. The seams knit together.

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.

Sometime I think I'd like to torture him to death. Other times, I think I'd forgive him. Because that would be worse.

Fear festers in the imagination. It’s not fear’s fault. That’s just the way it’s made.

Do not settle. Never fucking settle.

and then no one was flying anywhere. You can’t imagine how much the world can change in six months.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lauren Beukes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.