The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Shadows can only be seen in the presence of light,” he told her, the words agonized. “I worry when you leave, there will be no one left to see me.” ~ Kaylie Smith, Enchantra

“They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.” ~ Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one’s clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious. ~ Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“Do not be afraid of what you feel. Never forget what you have been through. Allow your passions to build inside you rather than diminish over time.” ~ Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“So the plan wasn't a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing.” ~ Martha Wells, Exit Strategy ( The Murderbot Diaries #4)

“This is a choice between revolution against the power structures or our extermination by those structures. People like you and your family? You’re what they harvest. Everything you do, everything you buy, everything you believe in—that’s just product and profit for them. You’re their cash crop.” ~ Stephen Markley, The Deluge

“People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you’d feel in a certain situation,” she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. “But it really doesn’t. It means being able to imagine how they’d feel, and how it might be completely different from you.” ~ Nicholas Binge, Ascension

If it is possible, as William Blake would have it, “to see a world in a grain of sand,” then perhaps we can see all nature in a hare: its simplicity and intricacy, fragility and glory, transience and beauty. ~ Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare

Then again, maybe love was always a gift. The only thing that couldn’t be bought or sold or bartered for. ~ Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

All she wanted to do was pull them off the shelves just to smell them. Crack open those perfect spines and devour the contents. She wanted to live and breathe a different world. Something, anything, other than her own horrid reality. It would be easy to spend a lifetime in this room and never read every volume. ~ K.A. Linde, The Wren in the Holly Library

In all of her time spent watching others, she hadn’t picked up on this part of falling in love, that someone could look at you as if you were the very center of everything. And even though you knew better, you’d allow yourself a moment to believe you were worthy of being revolved around, too. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Did we really believe capitalism was exempt from the laws of nature? Did we really confuse endless consumption with endless progress? Benjamin DeCasseres, a Frenchman who lectured at Timbuk U., defined progress as ‘the victory of laughter over dogma.’ Now there’s a victory worth celebrating.” ~ Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas