Broken Monsters Quotes

“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.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“(...) porque lo más cómico de la muerte es que la vida sigue.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“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.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“Hell isn't other people, it's other parents.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“...she got up and put twenty dollars on the table to cover their coffees - way too much and, besides, he'd already paid at the counter - and walked out of his life, and didn't return his calls or texts or emails - all the ones he tried not to send.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“Fear makes you ugly.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“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

“The problem with chemistry is that it tends to blow things up. And she is already a chain of reactions building up inside.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“This is the Detroit I want to write about," he says, feeling urbane as fuck. "Tattoo seances and nutty street art and text-message millionaires. People don't even know this is happening."

"Of course we know it's happening, shithead," Anorexic Thor says. "You don't know it's happening.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“WWCD. What would George Clooney do?”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“Fresh starts don't come with expired relationships attached”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“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.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“That’s all you got? ‘The people’? Fuck you.” He blinks. “Isn’t there supposed to be a good cop?” “We’re short staffed.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“things”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“in his memory, Instagrams really, because”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters