The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“For everyone who looks around and sees only darkness, let them watch you burn and light the way” ~ Penn Cole, Burn of the Everflame

But she is learning to let others think of her what they will. She is learning to keep secrets. And in the dark soil of her silence, she is gathering bits of knowledge like seed, planting them deep. ~ Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen

“They have hollow bones,” Mama explained. “It’s what makes birds so fragile. But it’s also what makes it possible to fly.” ~ Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“I think if you live long enough,” Nico said, “you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learn to navigate as you enter adulthood, and then that world slips away from you by degrees, and after a while there’s nothing left of it, but you’re still here. That’s what I mean.” ~ Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party

“You listen to me, young lady. This is your problem! This has always been your problem! You think kindness is some silly frivolous side virtue, when it is in fact the whole damn thing!” ~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

This whole floor is a racist political cartoon, telling the universe how shifty the Krakaren and the Plenty are. Borant has been very vocal about this for a while now. They say the Plenty are selling everybody this technology just so everybody will become addicted to it. But one day they will take it all away, and that will, somehow, allow their overlord, the Krakaren, to I don’t know, absorb the entire universe. ~ Matt Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook ( Dungeon Crawler Carl #3)