The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“You listen to me, young lady. This is your problem! This has always been your problem! You think kindness is some silly frivolous side virtue, when it is in fact the whole damn thing!” ~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

This whole floor is a racist political cartoon, telling the universe how shifty the Krakaren and the Plenty are. Borant has been very vocal about this for a while now. They say the Plenty are selling everybody this technology just so everybody will become addicted to it. But one day they will take it all away, and that will, somehow, allow their overlord, the Krakaren, to I don’t know, absorb the entire universe. ~ Matt Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook ( Dungeon Crawler Carl #3)

“It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived moment to moment, garden to stove to the simple act of flying, I could have peace.” ~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“People shouldn’t have to be afraid, Adam. Of anything. The universe is vast and terrifying and unthinkably dangerous and you deserve to be protected. To be kept safe and sound. Because otherwise those terrible things rule you and fear rules you and you can’t be who you really are. Freedom means no fear.” ~ qntm/Sam Hughes, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“Just because Eve gave Adam the apple? The man was probably hungry. The woman was always in charge of organizing the fucking snacks.” ~ Liane Moriarty, Big Little Truths

I read, which I suspect is the reason I’m still alive and writing all this down. Only now, after rereading the same thirty or so beat-up paperbacks over and over — what few I could carry into this hole in the wall while I waited for the world to end — do I realize how much I miss it. How much I need the stories. The words. ~ W.H. Chizmar, Them