Top 15 Lauren Beukes Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

The axles of corruption are greased with donut glaze.

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

Do not settle. Never fucking settle.

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

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

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

Fear makes you ugly.

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

But 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.