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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

“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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“That’s what parenthood was about, wasn’t it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn’t yours anymore but herself.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

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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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“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: death, inspirational, love

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“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

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Leigh’s Groups

The Sapphic Squad — 7244 members — last activity Oct 13, 2026 04:51PM
A book group for reading sapphic books and connecting over our often-obscure favorites! At least for now we're predominantly-YA but adult recs are ALW ...more

YA Writers and Readers — 731 members — last activity Aug 27, 2025 11:11AM
Basically this group is just a place to read, recommend, and spend time talking about books. Involving a group book every month that we read and discu ...more

The YA Dystopian Book Club — 3037 members — last activity Mar 10, 2026 11:24PM
Do you enjoy YA Dystopia novels? Then, this is the place for you. We have monthly group reads, RaR's, challenges, fun games, and lots of discussions. ...more

Camp Aengus — 12 members — last activity Jun 02, 2018 10:22PM
You've heard of camp half blood have you? Well meet Camp Aengus, were people are demigods of instead of greek gods, people are demigods of The Irish, ...more

Top 5 Wednesday — 9744 members — last activity Aug 06, 2026 08:07PM
Welcome to the official group page of the T5W! This weekly book meme officiated in November 2013 and is still going strong! Join the group to become a ...more

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