91 Quotes by Lauren Beukes

Good manners will do that; turn a situation around. You got to treat people like people.

This is the way the world is now. Everything is public. You have to find other people who understand.

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 of that gaping unknowable drift between continents.

Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn’t mean they don’t leave scars that itch.

They used to put people in stocks to shame them in public. Now you just need a wi-fi connection. On the internet, humiliation lives forever.

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?

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!

Keep your options open, his parents told him, but they didn’t tell him that growing older is about your options shutting down, one by one.

This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can’t chew your way out of.