Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls Quotes

Only other people can make you feel real.

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

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.

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.

Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.