The Saucy Wenches Book Club

As far as I knew, there hadn’t been a space program since it had failed—decades ago—to return a profit for investors ...he gently informed me astronaut was the prevailing idiom for the sixteen or so families who ran coastal economies and owned mineral rights and satellite clusters and news factories and prisons and most clean water and such shipping as remained. ~ Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

If when I explain human behavior you insist on logic, we won’t get far. ~ Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

“You won’t necessarily win against fate, but you should at least put up a fight.” ~ Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“If you think I won’t tie you up and lock you in my bedroom before I let you step outside in this weather, then you don’t know me at all.” ~ Ali Hazelwood, Cruel Winter with You

And tenderness is a strength. It isn’t pity, as some like to claim, or weakness, as others like to say, and it certainly doesn’t pity or weaken the one receiving it. On the contrary, that kind of intimacy restores parts fallen away, stripped from us, or given away in reckless, unthinking moments; a little tenderness can gather and restitch the scattered bits of the soul. ~ Karen Marie Moning, The House at Watch Hill

“The world is full of rattlesnakes. Sometimes you step on them and they don’t bite. Sometimes you step over them and they bite anyway.” ~ Stephen King, You Like It Darker: Stories