The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
~ Oscar Wilde,
De Profundis

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney,
Normal People

One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.”
~ Ibram X. Kendi,
How to Be an Antiracist

Sherlock Holmes once said that “the chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”

My smallness had been driven home.

Now to be great.

~ Death & Desire, Deborah Wilde

“Harrow,” said Gideon, “if my heart had a dick you would kick it.”
~ Tamsyn Muir,
Gideon the Ninth

“I love Tolkien,” she said quietly. It felt oddly freeing to be honest with someone. Most of the kids at her last school had cared more about movies and music than books. “And Herbert.”

“Dune was amazing. ‘Fear is the mind-killer.’ It’s so true, man.”

“And Stranger in a Strange Land. That’s kinda how I feel here.”

“You should. Nothing is normal in the last frontier. There’s a town up north that has a dog for a mayor.”
~ Kristin Hannah,
The Great Alone