Valerie Best

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Valerie’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (66)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (292)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
contemporary-fiction‎ (34)
fiction‎ (32)
middle-grade‎ (25)

british-y‎ (22)
young-adult‎ (20)
ya‎ (18)
mystery‎ (16)
classics‎ (14)
nonfiction‎ (12)
romance‎ (12)

change-your-life-good‎ (6)
bsc‎ (5)
children-s-literature‎ (5)
contemporary-romance‎ (4)
east-coast-y‎ (4)
not-for-me‎ (3)
spooky‎ (3)

duel-perspective‎ (2)
nancy-drew‎ (2)
new-adult‎ (2)
series‎ (2)
ww2‎ (2)
pulitzer-prizes‎ (1)
just-terrible‎ (0)

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Valerie’s Quotes

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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“It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
― Scott Westerfeld

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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