The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“It turns out executing a deliberate, convincing distraction is a lot harder than being a distraction accidentally.” ~ Martha Wells, Platform Decay ( The Murderbot Diaries #8)

Believe the lie — trust the lie — it is the only thing you have. Stay in the cage and paint the walls. If you do not, then you must quit; but if you can delude yourself long enough, then your delusions might very well come true. ~ R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“When your mama is in heaven there is nothing to stop her from loving you – not a man, not a job, not whatever she wanted to be doing but she had kids instead. When the sun shines, you can feel that pure love on you. It tastes like sugarcane.” ~ Tayari Jones, Kin

“Even at my most fucked up I like to make sense. At least to myself. Don’t you?” ~ Mason Coile (Andrew Pyper), Exiles

We want women like us. Women who present as scary, but have good hearts. Women who know how to get shit done. Women who, despite our age, share a dirty little secret: we’re just getting started. ~ Maria Semple, Go Gentle

“One day we’ll see that our perception of being alone in the world was once humankind’s greatest shared delusion.” ~ Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets