The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.
~ Taylor Jenkins Reid,  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Why is it,” Jonathan puzzled, “that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he’d spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?”
~ Richard Bach,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. I know they’re there. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. I hope.

~ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman

“Love is a luxury.”

“No. Love is an element.”

An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this” — I throw his own words back at him — “this is the least of what I can do.”
~ Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

My happiest place might just be under a showerhead. It is here in the steam, covered in suds, that I do not feel like Monique Grant, woman left behind. Or even Monique Grant, stalled writer. I am just Monique Grant, owner of luxury bath products.
~ Taylor Jenkins Reid,  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo