The Saucy Wenches Book Club

He stands before the fire, warming his rump. It is winter after all, and none of us are ever truly warm unless butted up to an open flame. ~ Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“After you’ve cheated someone, you have no option but to turn that person into an ogre so as to justify your own misdeeds.” ~ Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

“And in case you didn’t get the memo, I think the shit hit the fan and it’s all over the goddamn ceiling.” ~ Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“...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