The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he’s fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we’re taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some [redacted] fishermen. Don’t you wish you were here?” RJ Decker ~ Carl Hiaasen, Double Whammy

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.” ~ Ursula K. Leguin, The Dispossessed

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ~ George Orwell, 1984

I knew this was all a construction. But it was so easy to get caught up in the story. So easy to forget who the true enemy was. ~ Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods ( Dungeon Crawler Carl #4)

I was forbidden to join the protest. We made a placard anyway, Gran let me put it up in her front window. I wanted the slogan I’ll be less activist when you’re less shit . We settled on I’ll do my homework when you do yours . ~ EJ Swift, When There Are Wolves Again

All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn’t specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even. ~ Callie Hart, Brimstone