The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“I’ve lived my whole life with a land mind. Thinking land thoughts. But I want to think sea thoughts. I want to have a sea mind.” ~ Amity Gaige, Sea Wife

It’s not so much that the earth is one thing and the weather another, but that they’re the same. The earth is its air currents, the air currents the earth, just as a face is not separate from the expressions it makes. ~ Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Sometimes love manifests itself as a kind of amazed awe, as potent a feeling as any other form of connection: the shock of knowing that you are desired just as you are, no matter how broken you might feel. ~ Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise

The world will try to make you small. It will tell you to be modest, and meek. But the world is wrong. You should get to feel and love and live as boldly as you want. ~ V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

She is a small animal in awe of the miracle of life. Embedded in a glorious network since birth, she has always been enough. An unbreakable sense of belonging rooting her in place. Hope wraps its tentacles around her and lifts her to the stars... ~ Kira Jane Buxton, Tartufo

For instance: consider the greatest riddle of all — what you should do with your one brief life? The answer is different for each person. There is no neat answer, though many have tried to offer one. There are no answers to being alive. There are only strong pieces of advice. ~ Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures