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61 " But since Sloth I've been so monogamous I make the demonstration banana that AIDS educators use to show how to put on a condom, look slutty. "
― Lauren Beukes , Zoo City
62 " Finish the damn book. Nothing else matters. Stop second guessing yourself and write it through to the end. You don't know what you have until you've finished it. You don't know how to fix it until it's all down on the page. "
― Lauren Beukes
63 " 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 "
― Lauren Beukes , Broken Monsters
64 " Six foot eight and all asshole. "
― Lauren Beukes , The Shining Girls
65 " Everyone is broken. "
66 " 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. "
67 " The cashier doesn't blink at bullets, but the pharmacist refuses to give her antibiotics without a prescription. Fuck America. "
― Lauren Beukes , Afterland
68 " 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? "
69 " Don’t let anyone tell you that Apartheid has nothing to do with South Africa now. Those roots run deep and tangled and we’ll be tripping over them for many generations to come. "
― Lauren Beukes , Moxyland
70 " Fear festers in the imagination. It’s not fear’s fault. That’s just the way it’s made. Nightmares breed. Allies become enemies. Subversives are everywhere. Paranoia justifies any persecution, and privacy is a luxury when the Reds have the bomb. "
71 " And he's sorry he ever doubted the House. She's the one. One of the ones. His shining girls. "
72 " In our patakis, our folk myths, we believe that we come to the world with a destiny we picked for ourselves in Arun. Obatala creates the human body, but you have to get your head from the potter who molds them out of clay in his warehouse. On a good day he makes beautiful heads, but sometimes he gets drunk and makes a bad head. It’s a divine defect. There’s no way to tell from the outside, but once you’ve chosen your head, you have to live your destiny. "
73 " Pale fields of grass twitch and shiver in the wind. These things make the fact of a murder distant and unseemly. Beauty allows for plausible deniability. Maybe that’s beauty’s entire function in the world, Cole thinks: that you can blind yourself with it. "
74 " Don't get too close buddy ' I warn Sloth. Unofficially there's a code of conduct but animals are still animals. And animals can be assholes too. "
75 " Poison shared is poison halved. Or maybe it just poisons everyone equally. "
76 " Ruins are haunted by history, but so are people. "
77 " You can’t play nice by society’s rules? Then you don’t get to play at all. No phone. No service. No life. Tendeka "
78 " Anyone can find they've been standing on the trapdoor when they thought they were the spotlight attraction. "
79 " Life lesson: looks plus don’t-give-a-fuck confidence mean you can have anything you want—any "
80 " That's what I thought" he said. "It doesn't change anything, Zinzi". He moved to kiss me, but as I tilted my head up, he pressed the mango against my lips instead. "Idiot" I said, wiping my mouth, mainly to hide my smile. "Adulterer", he grinned. "Unwitting accomplice!" "You weren't so unwitting last night. And besides polygamie is legal in Congo." "Did I call you an idiot already?" "Only as much as I deserve." This time he did kiss me. I handed over twelve bucks for the mango and tucked myself under his arm, forcing Sloth to shuffle over begrudgingly. "Are we a terrible cliché?" "Isn't everybody?" he said. "