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121 " The problem is he didn't just burn his bridges when he left New York, he blew them up and napalmed the river. "
― Lauren Beukes , Broken Monsters
122 " understanding without action is what? That’s goddamn right. It’s meaningless. And the only thing we are here to do, the very reason we are here for the very short time we have, is to make meaning, to wrest it bloodily from the chaos and disorder that surround us. It is our own kind of conscious birth. "
― Lauren Beukes , Ungirls
123 " It’s a sad indictment of society…” Layla pants as they sprint for the stop, “that your boobs will probably get you further in life than my brains and talent. "
124 " Fear makes you ugly. "
125 " That’s all you got? ‘The people’? Fuck you.” He blinks. “Isn’t there supposed to be a good cop?” “We’re short staffed. "
126 " A yellow dog barks at him from behind a chain-link fence, all possessive ferocity and no damn balls. Just like the gang-banger kids. They think a pistol equals cojones. That's why they tuck them into their pants. "
127 " No keys in the ignition. All the keys are locked away in the main building. Part of how they keep the inhabitants “safe.” Same reason all the cars here are manual transmission, another layer of security, because they assume the inmates can’t drive stick. To be fair, the American ones probably can’t. But the South Africans can. "
― Lauren Beukes , Afterland
128 " (...) porque lo más cómico de la muerte es que la vida sigue. "
129 " El queso hace del mundo un lugar mejor (...). Es uno de los grupos alimentarios celestiales junto con el beicon, el helado y el helado con sabor a beicon. "
130 " Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. Watch any kid and how he acts with his friends at school. Ask his momma what he’s like at home. Try and get her to believe the same kid robbed the corner store. “Not my boy,” she’ll say and she’s right. Because her boy wouldn’t do that. But we are different things to different people in different contexts. "
131 " And the bitch about the new world order: it requires money, same as the old one. She feels betrayed by all the apocalypses of pop culture that promised abandoned cities ripe for the looting. "
132 " No one said it would be pretty, yanking despair out of a woman. "
― Lauren Beukes , The Shining Girls
133 " The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless with a terrible fury all its own. "
134 " But I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming. "
― Lauren Beukes , Zoo City
135 " You got to treat people like people. Something his momma taught him, along with how to use a gun, and what the minimum going rate for a whore was. "
136 " Beauty allows for plausible deniability. Maybe that's beauty's entire function in the world, Cole thinks: that you can blind yourself with it. "