{"author":"Lauren Beukes","author_id":"Lauren+Beukes","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["fashion","personae","personal-style","personality","style"],"id":48776,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"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.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["12-step-programs","addiction","addicts","rehab","therapy"],"id":58075,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"The dream knows what they are waiting for, even if they don’t themselves.The end of everything.The moment when it reveals its miracle boy and all the eyes will look and their seeing will be horror and glory and wonder and it will pierce the skin of the world, collapse dimensions, and open the doors and the work will breathe and dance in his shoes and the dream will be able to escape.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["dimensions","dream","wonder","work","world"],"id":83715,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"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.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["cookies","crazy-people","customer-service","insanity","work"],"id":92687,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"Only other people can make you feel real.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["reality"],"id":100458,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["south-african","urban-fantasy"],"id":115530,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"Visibility limits your imagination of the ocean only as far as you can see, ten metres, fifteen at a stretch. But it's only in the utter black that you can feel the true scale, the volume and weight of that gaping unknowable drift between continents.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["darkness","night-diving"],"id":139497,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["being","others","reality"],"id":139807,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["democracy","johannesburg","south-africa","traffic"],"id":168935,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"},{"text":"You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.","author":"Lauren Beukes","tags":["journalism","media"],"id":236731,"author_id":"Lauren+Beukes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}