The Saucy Wenches Book Club

I told her I had not unpacked my swim trunks, as I had just arrived. “Oh, go without,” she said, waving away my worries. “It’s more satisfying to swim in the nude. Are you concerned about this old lady seeing something? Don’t concern yourself. I am completely blind!” She stepped close to a painting and, with a delicate pinch of her forefinger and thumb, removed a single hair. A brisk smile at me. She was not blind in the least. ~ Andrew Sean Greer, Villa Coco

“And it sneaks up on me – this sensation. A sensation of deepest comfort. Here we are, doing small things, nothing really, just talking, watching television. And yet in the nothingness there is a life more real than any wedding or christening or birthday party. In these tiny moments, when the spectacle is stripped away, when there is no reason for the day, what’s left appears to be something true, something fundamental to being a person.” ~ Ben Reeves, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

It strikes me that, with all the cruelties in this world, there is still nothing quite as dangerous as kindness. ~ Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

But no one’s looking at their phones anymore. Not really. It’s like it took the end of the world for people to look up and see each other. ~ T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright

“I had in my hands the most precious of treasures, a spring from which to drink the knowledge of that world to which I would never have access.” ~ Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

After I’m finished peeing, I stand up straight, close my eyes, organize my thoughts, and click my heels together three times. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. I throw the [outhouse] door open and say, “Shit.” ~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear