“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
And falsehoods the truths of other people.
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
― An Ideal Husband
Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
And falsehoods the truths of other people.
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
― An Ideal Husband
“Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.”
― Serious Concerns
― Serious Concerns
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”
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“Who am I? I'm a poet. My business? Writing.
How do I live? I live.
In my happy poverty I squander like a prince,
my poems and songs of love.
In hopes and dreams and castles-in-air,
I'm a millionaire in spirit .”
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How do I live? I live.
In my happy poverty I squander like a prince,
my poems and songs of love.
In hopes and dreams and castles-in-air,
I'm a millionaire in spirit .”
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Lara Blaise’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lara Blaise’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Horror, Mystery, Paranormal, Poetry, Science fiction, Young-adult, cyberpunk, science-fiction-fantasy, speculative-fiction, alternate-universe, alternate-history, beauty-and-the-beast, fairy-tale-retellings, fairy-tales, dark-fantasy, gothic, gothic-romance, gothic-horror, folklore, greek-mythology, mythology, detective, fantasy-romance, gaming, dungeons-and-dragons, world-of-darkness, gaming-fiction, epic-fantasy, high-fantasy, murder-mystery, low-fantasy, photography, irish-literature, lgbt, queer, post-apocalyptic, punk, pulp-noir, urban-fantasy, steampunk, victorian, robots, weird-fiction, weird-west, and witchcraft
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