The Saucy Wenches Book Club

That night, my schoolteacher mother succumbed to the power of rock and roll. And even when a tie-dyed Romeo in front of us offered her a spoon of cocaine, she chose to ignore it. It was an unforgettable night, if only for what she said quietly as we walked to the car. “I understand your music,” she said. “It’s better than ours.” ~ Cameron Crowe, The Uncool

The creature was never here. The creature is always here. The creature is her own ferocious, indefatigable will: her hunger to survive; her determination to be heard; her yearning to be understood. It has been with her from her first furious, motherless howl and it will stay with her until her last letting go. ~ Caroline Lea, Love, Sex, and Frankenstein

“Why should money make evil comprehensible to anyone? But it does precisely this. Greed, violence, cruelty — money can explain them. Money can make the most heinous act seem like a sane one. A business decision. A necessary calculation. Evil’s genius is to costume itself as sense.” ~ Karen Russell, The Antidote

“It’s fascinating. How so much of love is about who you are with someone.” ~ Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Cats are assholes. I get it. But do you know why people like cats, despite their asshole-ness? It’s because they don’t fucking talk . If they did, and they were all like you, they’d all be extinct because we’d have killed you all by now.” ~ Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Such liberty and abandon, such fearful defiance. They were brilliant in their avarice, quarrelsome beyond imagining, ready to die for bad and good ideas alike. ~ Ian McEwan, What We Can Know