The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“...that the real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we’re alive.”
― Jeff VanderMeer,
Borne

“Real is a four-letter word, and I’ll thank you to use it as little as possible while you live under my roof.”
Every Heart a Doorway,
Seanan McGuire

If civilization is ever going to be anything but a grandiose pratfall, anything more than a can of deodorizer in the shithouse of existence, then statesmen are going to have to concern themselves with magic and poetry.
~ Tom Robbins,
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here,” he said, so softly I could barely hear him, “here in the dark, with you ... I have no name.”
~Diana Gabaldon,
Voyager (Outlander #3)

“And the flavor of Pippa’s kiss—bittersweet and strange—stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”

~ Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”
~ Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago