The Saucy Wenches Book Club

People do not get “heavy” with wisdom. They get light. The wiser you become, the lighter you become. This is an unsolicited testimonial for lightheartedness... ~ Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“So I preached from Luke, chapter eighteen, verses one through eight: the parable of the importunate widow. It’s one I’ve always liked. A widow is so persistent in her demands for justice that she overcomes the resistance of a judge who fears neither God nor man. She wears him down. Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn’t always safe, but it’s often necessary.” ~ Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“Come out and fight like your balls didn’t rot off decades ago!” ~ Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood

She could not fathom the hexagonal miracle of snowflakes formed from clouds, crystallized fern and feather that tumble down to light on a coat sleeve, white stars melting even as they strike. How did such force and beauty come to be in something so small and fleeting and unknowable? You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had come to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers. ~ Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn’t like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they’d live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever. ~ Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“That is why great power must never reside in only one person. It must be shared.” Her rough voice was rougher than before. “It must be spread, among as many good women and men as can be found; not because it is kind or polite or fair, but because it is the only way to beat back against horror.” ~ Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures