The Saucy Wenches Book Club

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

The prime directive of all living beings is simple — do what you must — but only the wicked do what they can. ~ W.H. Chizmar, Them

And I wonder how I ever believed not falling in love with this male was an option. How I ever believed I was capable of pulling myself from his atmosphere. ~ Sarah A. Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons

There was something about him slightly more suggestible than other children, a thinness between the world he lived in and the world of stories. Not entirely unexpected of a child of two people devoted to books. ~ Daniel Mason, Country People

Mostly, Mad just didn’t like feeling any more uncomfortable than she already would be, filing into a huge arena to watch a sport that, truth be told, she didn’t exactly comprehend. But they were here, right? This is what a family did. They showed up for things they didn’t totally understand and wore uncomfortable clothes and they shouted your name nonstop because they wanted you to understand that, win or lose, they loved you. ~ Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills

—Not a preamble. A beginning. And it’s too late now to make a difference to the outcome. All we can do is choose who we will save. —And let everyone else go hang? She smiled at me, a tight little smile. —Or save no one at all. ~ Jessie Greengrass, The High House