The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“You’ve got that look about you.” “What look?” “Well, not to be rude, but you’re all fucked up, aren’t you?” ~ R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

Girls—normal human girls—people could contend with; they were weak and small. And dogs too could be trained. But girls who became dogs, or who let the world believe they were dogs, were either powerful or mad: both monstrous possibilities. ~ Xenobe Purvis, The Hounding

It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist. ~ Omar El Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“And why didn’t you just knock on the door and introduce yourself like a normal human being? Say, Hey, I’m your next-door neighbor ? Instead, you chose to part my bush with your crowbar.” He smirks a stupid smirk. “Part your bush with my crowbar, huh?” ~ Meghan Quinn, Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal

“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about. “I wish someone would have thought to say to me, earlier on, ‘Sybil, over and over again serpents will emerge from the bottom of the sea and grab you by the feet.’ Of course I didn’t say anything of the sort to my own children, and I probably never would.” ~ Virginia Evans, The Correspondent: A Novel

“What’s different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable, and has been since the mid-1950s. We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose not to live in that world.” ~ John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis