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Ashby Dodd

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Ashby is Currently Reading

Ashby Dodd is currently reading

Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

by Jeff Hiller (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, movies-series, biographies, lgbtq-plus, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, texas, short-story, non-fiction, california, los-angeles, comedy-humor, new-york, mental-health, family, audiobook

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Making Mary Poppins: The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of a Classic Film

by Todd James Pierce

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The Ghostwriter

by Julie Clark (Goodreads Author)

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Ashby’s Quotes

“Art teaches us to mourn for strangers.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“Art is empathy.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“A lack of self-confidence is a devastating virus. There’s no cure.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“Because, fuck it, I need to live my life. Whether that life lasts fifty more years or fifteen minutes, I can’t spend it in perpetual fear.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

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