91 Quotes by Lauren Beukes

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!

There is aerated ink caked in the air vents from the printing presses that shake the whole building when they run. Some reporters have ink in their veins. The Sun-Times staff have ink in their lungs. Once in a while someone will complain to OSHA.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow

Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What’s that got to do with the heart?

I’d rather be a happy Hooters waitress than a depressed out-of-work actor.

He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

It doesn't escape him that the rock holding it up is the perfect fit for his fist. Or how easily one of those needle spokes would slide right through the girl's eye like Jell-O.