The Saucy Wenches Book Club

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

“Poke around in murky waters, and things will rise to the surface. Truth is buoyant.” ~ Hernan Diaz, Ply

“To love a human, to fall for a human, there’s nothing like it. It’s risky, yes. But to risk is to hope, and without hope, well, we are done as a species.” He waved in the general direction of the cantina and shook his head. “A robot ... that is giving up. You’re too young to give up. I can’t let you do it.” ~ Deb Olin Unferth, Earth 7