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21 " You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news. "
― Lauren Beukes , Zoo City
22 " There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random. "
― Lauren Beukes , The Shining Girls
23 " It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real. "
24 " Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch. "
25 " 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. "
26 " 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. "
27 " There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting. "
28 " Always thought being a writer would be one of the most useless things you could be in a zombie apocalypse, but it turns out arts and culture and storytelling is what helps us get through. Along with science, doctors, nurses, delivery people, farm workers and supermarket cashiers. "
― Lauren Beukes
29 " She would disappearfolded like origamiinto her own dreams "
30 " The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own. "
31 " I’d rather be a happy Hooters waitress than a depressed out-of-work actor. "
― Lauren Beukes , Broken Monsters
32 " Cannibal Penguin FTW!! "
33 " The mother opens her perfect mouth, and any guilt Gabi is feeling isallayed by the incredible stupid that comes out of it. ‘I hope not. I reallyhope not. You being a single mother and all.’ It’s worse than patronizing.It’s matronizing. Broken Monsterspg 281 "
34 " Gabi had felt the same way. As if the universe had abruptly expanded, like opening up a map, in a way she wouldn't have believed was possible. Love. The real thing. Huge and hungry and savage. "
35 " The post-divorce lines around Gabby's mouth tugged down her whole face. She suddenly looks older. Older than the image Layla carries in her head. Of her mom back when she still wore a uniform, her dark hair in a high ballerina bun, gun at her waist, like the cops on TV. If safe was a person, her mom was it. "
36 " Shining stars linked together through time. A constellation of murder. "
37 " A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable. "
38 " Like Humpty Dumpty. At some point you have to pick up the pieces. Or walk away. Don't look back. Fuck the king's horses. "
39 " He adds, wistfully, "I don't suppose you have syphilis, do you?""No.""Pity. There's a study starting in Alabama that would have paid for all your medical care if you did. Although you'd have to be a Negro.""I'm not that, either.""Too bad." The doctor shrugs. "
40 " WWCD. What would George Clooney do? "