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T.L. Rese

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Born

The United States

Website

http://tlrese.substack.com

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Marion Zimmer Bradley, J.K. Rowling ...more

Member Since

July 2007

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Rese has been imagining the fantastic since she was a child. She grew up wandering through myriad book worlds, and her taste for crazy tales eventually led to a BA in English from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. When she’s not writing about the impossible, she’s pursuing various interests, such as traveling, photographing, horseback riding, and piano playing; she especially enjoys sleeping and dreaming.

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Average rating: 3.64 · 92 ratings · 39 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Spirit of a Kyrie 3.79 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gift Stones 3.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ingress: A Tale of Ranoa 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I saw the stars again not too long ago. I was walking to my friend’s house [...]. He lived with his mother and younger sister in a one-story house with a pink roof and candy decorations. It reminded me of a gingerbread house.

On my way over, I looked up into the night sky and saw those [...] stars [...] above the rooftops and trees. I [...] stared at those [...] pinpoint stars in their clear-cut co

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“Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.”
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tags: language, music, writing

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“Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.”
― T.L. Rese

tags: fantasy, imagination, reality

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“Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.”
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tags: beauty, existence, life, pain

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“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: dreams, supernatural

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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