Sign in with Facebook
Liz
https://www.goodreads.com/lizzmo
Several people passed her, intent on their own stories.
“Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday
― The Man Who Was Thursday
“Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?”
― The Man Who Was Thursday
― The Man Who Was Thursday
“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Liz’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Liz’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
782 books
|
60 friends
32 books
|
140 friends
1,412 books
|
119 friends
28 books
|
111 friends
77 books
|
25 friends
78 books
|
87 friends
1 book
|
118 friends
3 books
|
83 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Liz
Lists liked by Liz