Quotes from Destined for Doon

“Gently I touched his arm."Consider your promise fulfilled. You can go home now."
He raised his head to pierce me with his dark, anguished eyes. "I'm trying to -- if you'd stop fighting me with every breath."
"Don't be absurd. Chicago's not your home."
"No," he said. "You are.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon

“Yoga’s nothing but young girls twistin’ themselves into pretzels and prayin’ to the devil.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon

“You need to let yourself be forgiven.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon

“My philosophy had always been to do the leaving first.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon

“Just once I’d like to save the world at high noon like a cowboy.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon

“Stop torturing yourself and just let go. Surrender all the guilt, the pain, everything you’ve been carrying — leave it all here.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon

“She’s Eponine — but of a platonic sort. You’re my Cossette.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon

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