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“All I know is that we are here together, in this memory. That somehow it still connects us.”
“A long time ago, psychopathy used to be called simply "evil." People who were evil-who took a delight in hurting or killing others-were written about ever since Medea took an axe to her children, and probably long before that. The word "psychopath" was coined by a German psychiatrist in 1888—the same year Jack the Ripper terrorized London-from the German word psycho-pastiche, literally meaning "suffering soul." For Mariana this was the clue— the suffering— the sense that these monsters were also in pain. Thinking about them as victims allowed her to be more rational in her approach, and more compassionate. Psychopathy or sadism never appeared from nowhere. It was not a virus, infecting someone out of the blue. It had a long prehistory in childhood.”
― The Maidens
― The Maidens
“My argument with so much of psychoanalysis is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness. When in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering.
- ARTHUR MILLER”
― The Maidens
- ARTHUR MILLER”
― The Maidens
“Let me tell you something—-this is what those old Greek plays are about. What it means to be human. What it means to be alive.
And if you miss that when you read them—if all you see is a bunch of dead words—then you're missing the whole damn thing. I don't just mean in the plays—I mean in your lives, right now. If you're not aware of the transcendent, if you're not awake to the glorious mystery of life and death that you're lucky enough to be part of-if that doesn't fill you with joy and strike you with awe you might as well not be alive. That's the message of the tragedies.
Participate in the wonder. For your sake—for Tara's sake-live it.”
― The Maidens
And if you miss that when you read them—if all you see is a bunch of dead words—then you're missing the whole damn thing. I don't just mean in the plays—I mean in your lives, right now. If you're not aware of the transcendent, if you're not awake to the glorious mystery of life and death that you're lucky enough to be part of-if that doesn't fill you with joy and strike you with awe you might as well not be alive. That's the message of the tragedies.
Participate in the wonder. For your sake—for Tara's sake-live it.”
― The Maidens
Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
329 books
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27 friends
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135 books
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692 books
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149 books
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191 books
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18 books
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