The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Look. I’m glad I get to know this side of you. This part of you is worth knowing. I think you don’t know that.” Simon would like to hide right now, but he can’t, so he buries his face in Charlie’s neck. “And that part of you deserves a place to belong and be looked after.” Thank you for letting me do that, is what he’s supposed to say. “And if you think I’m letting anyone else do that,” he says instead, “you’re out of your fucking mind.” ~ Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped

“We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.” ~ Colin Meloy, Wildwood

That’s how I used poetry. To understand the world. To decode, analyze, interpret, think. Gave me a huge leg up. For instance, in my government classes the professors would ask, “But does the checks and balances system really work, because if so, how do you explain Nixon?” I knew how to explain Nixon: Dante. Adultery? James Dickey. Despair? Too long to list here. ~ Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck

Inside its maw, human existence, all humans and all the things humans have ever done, said, thought, or been, are rotting into sludge. U-3125 is, in large part, the lie that U-3125 is inevitable, and indestructible. But it is a lie. She feels it, now. ~ qntm (Sam Hughes), There Is No Antimemetics Division

Carl: Christ. Is the whole universe filled with assholes? Mordecai: Just the ones with the money. ~ Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to open an aperture in time and space, how much water it takes to keep the computing systems from frying themselves? ~ Ellery Lloyd, Time to Burn