Rachel VanValkenburg
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“The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“...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
“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
“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
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