The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Maybe we’ll drown or burn or starve one day, but until then we get to choose if we’ll add to that destruction or if we will care for each other.” ~ Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“I refuse to ‘look up.’ Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man’s fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.” “I ain’t miserable.” “You are.” “No, I ain’t.” “Yes, you are.” ~ John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“No, he’s made a very good point,” said Bashford provocatively. “Women are just vessels, you know.” “That’s very true,” said Sykes, smiling angelically at him. “I myself am a seventeen-thousand-ton Dreadnought class battleship with enough firepower to destroy a medium-sized city.” ~ Jodi Taylor, An Argumentation of Historians

The octopuses do not produce representational art of living things, for to live is to change and be in constant motion. ... They create abstract sculpture..., they make poetry with their skins, they dance through strange, boneless ballets in the water. To the octopuses this is not distinct from living. ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“Don’t choose a mediocre life for a mediocre man. Go be exceptional. If he’s worth it, he won’t judge you. And if he’s really the one, he’ll come along for the ride.” ~ Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“Celie, baby, you look around at people who are happy in themselves in their lives — they’re just busy living, having a good time. They don’t set out to be mean to other people. Their energy is going into other things. It doesn’t even occur to them to hurt someone else, or to try to make them feel small. In fact, they’re more likely to be building other people up.” ~ Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here