Casey McDonald

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Casey is Currently Reading

Casey McDonald is currently reading

The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

bookshelves: rory-gilmore-challenge, physical-books, childhood, classics, currently-reading, read-2026, fairytale

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Casey’s Quotes

“All you can do with the past is carry it around, feeling its weight slowly increase, praying it never crushes you completely.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

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“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

tags: curiosity

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“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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“Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

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“Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!”
― Jim Henson

tags: goblin-king, jareth, labyrinth, sarah-williams

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