Laura Porter

“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

“Beauty or meaning is not intrinsic too suffering. But if you can take the suffering and find the parts that are funny or profound, you can curate your world into something that might be entertaining for someone for a while. Eventually, maybe, that time will have been useful. More useful than, like, working in a bank.”
― Jade Sharma, Problems

“Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it. As people get older, they finally give jealousy up, or at least they put it off for as long as possible until there’s such incontrovertible evidence”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans: Stories

“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