The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Already the blue scilla are beginning to flower, the daffodils have their snouts above ground, the self-seeded forget-me-nots are creeping up, getting ready to hog the light. Here it comes — another year of vegetative hustling and jostling. They never seem to get tired of it: plants have no memories, that’s why. They can’t remember how many times they’ve done all this before. ~ Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“I hope you weren’t too free with your knowledge,” Father said. “A man expects to guide his wife in all things. Displaying too much cleverness can make a woman seem less appealing.” ~ C. L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

If Blue were a scholar—and she has played one enough times to know she would have loved to be—she would catalogue, across all strands [of time], a comprehensive study of the worlds in which Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, and in which a comedy. It delights her, whenever visiting a new strand, to take in a performance not knowing how it will end. ~ This is How You Lose the Time War , Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

“But seriously, why books. Because no other thing possesses that mystical faculty to make people see with other people’s eyes. The Library is a bridge of books between cultures.” ~ Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“I wish for us to have the courage to go out into the world when we are ready, but to always be able to find our way back to each other. No matter what.” ~ Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

If he were a dog, his tail would be constantly wagging. ~ Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet