The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. No one understood us, only we two—I thought—understood one another.” 
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

In a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller,
Circe,

“Datable basically means you wear your bra when they’re around, and you don’t talk about bodily functions or pimples. Not datable or gay: anything goes.”
Dating You Hating You, Christina Loren

People are forever thinking that the unthinkable can’t happen. If it doesn’t exist in thought, then it can’t exist in life. And then, in the blink of an eye, in a moment of danger, a figure who takes power from our weak desires and failures emerges like a rib from sand. ... Some strange combination of a military dictator and a spiritual charlatan. A war-hungry mountebank. How stupidly we believe in our petty evolutions. Yet another case of something shiny that entertained us and then devoured us. We consume and become exactly what we create. In all times.

~ Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

"Well then..." she said, snapping back into pissed off mode. "Goodbye, Carter James...and FUCK YOU AGAIN...With something rough and sand-papery!"

Sincerely, Carter
~~Whitney G

“The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.”
Scythe by Neal Shusterman