The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Once upon a time there was a silence that dreamed of becoming a song, and then I found you, and now everything is music.
~ Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

‘Which way to the north-east air-raid shelter from here?’ she asked anxiously. ‘I get so muddled in the smoke.’

Maddie pointed: ‘Straight line across the grass. Easy peasy if you’re brave enough — like finding Neverland, “Second to the right, and then straight on till morning.”’

Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
by Doug Stanton

“Booze is universal, it brings people together, and a lot of times it results in the creation of more people. What could be more magical than something that does all that?”
Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge,
Paul Krueger

“How do you know if you can really trust someone?” I finally ask.

Noah raises his eyebrows and takes a sip of his drink.

Then he looks into my eyes and the expression in his is so earnest I feel like he’s answering from a deeply personal place.

“If you need to ask that question, then you probably already know the answer,” he says.

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

"I made up my mind because we fit," he said, reaching out  to take my hand, to squeeze it. "You make me better, and I like to think I do the same for you."

I thought of the awkward human, then vampire, I'd been, and the slightly less awkward vampire I was becoming. "It's just--you were very unexpected."

"That's because you'd only explored one half of yourself, Sentinel. I merely gave you the chance to blossom. To be the person you were always meant to become."

Tears rushed into my eyes, and I knuckled them away. "Damn it, Ethan. How do you come up with things like that?"

"I keep a notebook."

Blood Games
~~Chloe Neill