The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?”
― Karen Marie Moning,
The Immortal Highlander

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

The first force is evolution. Humanity changing, growing, becoming better than it was. The second force is ruination. Humanity making its best effort to demonstrate its worst tendencies. A march toward self-destruction. The future is a door that can accommodate only one of those two competing forces. Will humanity evolve and become something better? Or will we cut our own throats with the knives we made?
~ Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“If memory is unreliable, if the past and the present can simply change without warning, then fact and truth will cease to exist. How do we live in a world like that?”
~ Blake Crouch, Recursion

“And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he’s ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Why didn’t you become a sorcerer, Geralt? Weren’t you ever attracted by the Art? Be honest.”
“I will. I was.”
“Why, then, didn’t you follow the voice of that attraction?”
“I decided it would be wiser to follow the voice of good sense.”
“Meaning?”
“Years of practice in the witcher’s trade have taught me not to bite off more than I can chew. Do you know, Vilgefortz, I once knew a dwarf, who, as a child, dreamed of being an elf. What do you think; would he have become one had he followed the voice of attraction?”
The Time of Contempt, Andrzej Sapkowski