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Rachel VanValkenburg
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“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees.”
― The Snow Child
― The Snow Child
“We pretend to want things we don't want so nobody can see us not getting what we need.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“We never know what is going to happen, do we? Life is always throwing us this way and that. That’s where the adventure is. Not knowing where you’ll end up or how you’ll fare. It’s all a mystery, and when we say any different, we’re just lying to ourselves. Tell me, when have you felt most alive?”
― The Snow Child
― The Snow Child
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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