91 Quotes by Lauren Beukes

The original stories are mined out, and all that’s left is fool’s gold.

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.

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 time.

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.

Everyone is broken.

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

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

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

She would disappearfolded like origamiinto her own dreams