Leigh Hecking

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Leigh’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Heart's Invisible Furies

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

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But for all that we had, for all the luxury to which we were accustomed, we were both denied love, and this deficiency would be scorched into our future lives like an ill-considered tattoo inscribed on the buttocks after a drunken night ...more

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Leigh’s Quotes

“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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“I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

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“you will have to fight your entire life. And that’s why you’ll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

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“Are all these books doors?'
'A book is always a door.”
― Melissa Albert, The Night Country

tags: books, doors, doorways, escape, escapism, melissa-albert, reading, the-night-country

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“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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