91 Quotes by Lauren Beukes

Only other people can make you feel real.

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

World needs more angels, even plywood ones.

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

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.

I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

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.

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.