The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“I always find it interesting how Jane Austen’s fans are always romantics to some degree ― when I swear she wrote those books with a goose quill dipped in venom.” ~ Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

“Literature can teach us the qualitative texture of the world. And we need it to. We need to communicate the value of things, so that more of us might fight to save them.” ~ Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” ~ Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

Half the colors vanished from my world and I couldn’t breathe right until you returned. Say it, Stardust. I want to hear it. I love you, Ryodan Killian St. James. Any name, any form. Always. Love you, Stardust. Always. Across space and time. No ending. New beginnings. ~ Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

Sun, moon, and stars , I told him. He inclined his head. Of all the years, this one with you has been my finest. Fire to my ice, Mac. Frost to my flame, Jericho. Forever , we said, and it was a vow far more powerful and binding than any ring or piece of paper. ~ Karen Marie Moning, Feversong

And even if you were a pawn—maybe we all are—then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn’t. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power. ~ Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Elsa knew that a library card—a thing they’d taken for granted all of their lives—meant there was still a future. ~ Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

Pandemics once spread across every continent, leaving thousands dead in its wake in far less populated areas than the world has today. It’s nature’s way of...culling the herd, so to speak. Keeping population in check. Even with medical advancements, should those diseases return, it could mean eventual global extinction. Gypsy Freak ( All the Pretty Monsters #2), Kristy Cunning

Rhys was quiet for a moment. “Do you want me to come with you?” “To paint?” “I’d be an excellent nude model.” ~ A Court of Frost and Starlight , Sarah J. Maas

“A man who doesn’t trust cannot be trusted.” ~ James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“Hope builds a stairway to Heaven. Fear opens an abyss to Hell.” ~ Karen Marie Moning, Feversong

“Are there weapons in a bookstore?” “It’s a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,” Monty replied blandly. The Crows cocked his head. “I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.” ~ Anne Bishop, Murder of Crows

Tonight, the sea was a shiver of dark glass, harboring secrets untold in her depths while on her tranquil surface stars glittered like diamonds. Life-giving, life-stealing, beautiful, a challenge to handle, worth learning to ride, full of fresh wonders every day—if he’d had a woman like the ocean in his bed, he’d still be there.... The rock smelled of a woman: dark and vast, complex as the sea. She was life and death, mercy and ruthlessness, joy and grief. Complicated. Hard to handle. Worth learning to ride. ~ Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?” T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“You willed this ship into existence?” “I found parts of it and told myself the story of the rest of it and eventually they were the same, the found parts and the story parts. It can steer itself but I have to tell it where to go and nudge it back in the right direction sometimes. I can change the sails but they like being this color. Do you like them?” Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“We don’t lock up books in this house,” Philippe said, “only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.” ~ Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night