Maz
https://www.goodreads.com/mazeclypse
“I’m going to die. So are you, unless you’re a vampire, a zombie, or Keanu Reeves.”
― All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
― All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
“If a pistol appears in a story, eventually it's got to be fired.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
―
―
Middle East/North African Lit
— 2410 members
— last activity Feb 12, 2026 07:37PM
Current banner photo : Gaza at Palestine #Land day https://altahrir.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/land-in-eastern-gaza-declared-a-disaster-zone-due-to-isr ...more
Maz’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maz’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Maz
Lists liked by Maz






















