Laura Louzada

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“A vida só me é dada uma vez, e ela nunca mais voltará—eu não quero esperar a 'felicidade geral'. Eu mesmo quero viver; do contrário o melhor seria não existir.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A morte põe um olho no passado e outro no futuro e deixa a gente cego na hora, no encontro do que foi e do que será, na tortura do que poderia ter sido. Impõe o desespero do definitivo, trava os movimentos. Embrulha o estômago indigesta. Faz frio nos ossos. A morte é vida intensa demais para quem fica.”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

“The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that what Roche’s tranquilizers really seemed to offer was a quick fix for the problem of “being female.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty