The Saucy Wenches Book Club

...in spite of our lofty ideals and the many safeguards to protect the Scythedom from corruption and depravity, we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.
~ Neal Shusterman,
Scythe
(Arc of a Scythe #1)

“Besides, easy is overrated compared to you in all your spectacular, mercurial, enigmatic glory.”
― Jeaniene Frost,
Bound by Flames

There was a message from the detective. Working a case. Stay put. Will call when I’m done. DON’T DO ANYTHING STUPID.
“It’s like he doesn’t even know me.”
~ Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“...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)