Source: Zoo City
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Famous Lauren Beukes Quotes
Source: The Shining Girls
Source: Broken Monsters: A Gritty Detroit Noir Thriller of Serial Murder and Urban Decay
“She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.”
Source: The Shining Girls
Source: The Shining Girls
Source: The Shining Girls
Source: Afterland
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Source: Moxyland
“The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.”
“It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.”
Source: Zoo City
“Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.”
Source: Zoo City
“She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams”
“The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.”
“There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.”
“Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting”
“Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.”
Source: Zoo City
Source: Zoo City
“You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.”
Source: Zoo City
“Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.”