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Eve Babitz
“The rooms in those days were unfashionably sad enough to commit suicide in, and, in fact, that to me was the Château’s charm, that it didn’t have any objections to one’s committing suicide. Things since then had gone steadily downhill,”
Eve Babitz, Black Swans: Stories

Bessel van der Kolk
“More than anything else, being able to feel safe with other people defines mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”
Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Eve Babitz
“And so another season passed, and I hadn’t seen Brian, yet another terrible tangle with Peter went by, and anyone who loved me I avoided like the plague. Can things get worse? I kept wondering, and surprisingly, they did. Until finally I read this book by Fay Weldon, and she talks about a woman married to a depressed man and explains there’s nothing you (i.e., women) can do about them. And fiction got through to me where facts had feared to tread.”
Eve Babitz, Black Swans: Stories

Maia Szalavitz
“addictive behavior is often a search for safety rather than an attempt to rebel or a selfish turn inward”
Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

Eve Babitz
“It’s not that that kills people,” he said, “it’s the fear. I mean, it’s okay to die. We remember that from our psychedelic days, don’t we? That we are divine?”
Eve Babitz, Black Swans: Stories

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