The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“The point isn’t that the candle won’t last the night. Everything is temporary. The point is that the light is gorgeous while it lasts.” ~ Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party

“You’re going to be okay. I mean, in the long run you’ll be dead, and in the short run it’s gonna be bumpy, but in the medium run... you’re golden.” ~ John Green, Hollywood Ending

“Sadness can make us bitter or wise. We get to choose.” ~ Allen Levi, Theo of Golden: A Novel

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was c o l o r . All the c o l o r he had. ~ Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

The implacability and violence of nature always awed him. That it could be entirely heedless and yet so beautiful. That awed him. But also its intricate intelligence. Its balancings. Its quiet compensations. It was like some unnamed justice permeated everything ... the workings of nature made the voracious, self-satiating intelligence of humans seem of the lowest order, not the highest. ~ Peter Heller, The River

“...the wind sings through your very blood. You cannot be caged. You cannot be broken. They lock you away because they fear you.” ~ Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Splintered Harmony