The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“...maybe, at the end of the day, it’s not ... only about forgiveness. It’s about something deeper than that. Deeper than any limited understanding of being angry or hurt or deceived. Deeper than any understanding we may have of what we’ve gotten right and wrong. It’s about our effort. The effort is the thing, isn’t it? What effort will you make to be forgiven? What effort will you keep making, regardless of the cost, to show up for the people who need you?” ~ Laura Dave, The First Time I Saw Him

Nothing is what it’s supposed to be if love is not at the core. ~ Allen Levi, Theo of Golden: A Novel

They were warned about what would happen with repeated exposure to this seamless earth. You will see, they were told, its fullness, its absence of borders except those between land and sea. You’ll see no countries, just a rolling indivisible globe which knows no possibility of separation, let alone war. And you’ll feel yourself pulled in two directions at once. Exhilaration, anxiety, rapture, depression, tenderness, anger, hope, despair. ~ Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Let us lie here forever. Let us be buried as wild things are, by tooth and claw and worm. Let the grasses grow up through the sockets of our eyes. Let them find us in seven years or seventy, and let their brows furrow, because they cannot tell my bones from yours.” ~ Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“I’m not a delicate flower that you should fear crushing in your palm.” “No, you’re delicate like a bomb.” ~ K.A. Linde, The Wren in the Holly Library

The regimes had learned, from watching how other autocratic systems were toppled, that compromise was death. They made no reforms. They promised nothing. They simply jailed, beat, harassed, and killed as many people as was necessary. ~ Ray Nayler, Where the Axe Is Buried