The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Don said, “You never believed in fate.” Rodney snorted. “No. You and me? We weren’t destined to be. We’re here because we worked for it. We worked hard. We survived some of the worst things people can live through. It’s not fate. It was you and me who did it. No one and nothing else.” ~ T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright

“You need to be someone worth falling in love with — you teach them how to love you by showing them who you are.” ~ Rufi Thorpe, Margo’s Got Money Troubles

“People are art,” he said. “It’s enough to just watch the people.” ~ Ann Patchett, Whistler

Once, she heard a guy refer to her as “sex on a stick,” and although she actually had no idea what that meant, she understood it to be a superpower. ~ Jenny Jackson, The Shampoo Effect

All that matters is that he does care and that he wants Charlie to know it. He never wants Charlie to doubt it. Maybe that’s the trick to relationships — with friends or lovers or colleagues who become something like family. ~ Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped

It was the most important day of my life. The day I stopped working on my husband, my farm, my family, and returned to work on an old, beloved project: myself. I walked back inside to make dinner for my family. After dinner, I knocked myself up again. ~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear