The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“It might sound like an unhappy ending, but only if you forget how many times during this story we’ve told you that someone laughed. How many really good nows is that? How many people ever have more?” ~ Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” ~ Ursula K. Leguin, The Dispossessed

“His hand brushed a lock of her hair out of her face. “Little wren, I am a monster. A monster in a suit, but one with claws nonetheless.” “I don’t care,” she told him. “That’s what I want.” “You don’t want...” “Don’t tell me what I want. I’ll tell you what I want. I want you.” Her hand came to the tie on his suit, dragging him in closer to her. Their mouths were a hairsbreadth apart as she commanded, “Let the monster off its leash.” ~ K.A. Linde, The Wren in the Holly Library

“We went out when we weren’t supposed to, we were too free, and this—all of this—is our punishment. It has nothing to do with the idea of us becoming dogs, and everything to do with the fact of us being girls.” ~ Xenobe Purvis, The Hounding

“What is magic but science that is not yet understood? What is science but magic with an explanation?” ~ Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

“You have to fool yourself into thinking you already are the thing you want to become.” ~ Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country