The Saucy Wenches Book Club

I knew this was all a construction. But it was so easy to get caught up in the story. So easy to forget who the true enemy was. ~ Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods ( Dungeon Crawler Carl #4)

I was forbidden to join the protest. We made a placard anyway, Gran let me put it up in her front window. I wanted the slogan I’ll be less activist when you’re less shit . We settled on I’ll do my homework when you do yours . ~ EJ Swift, When There Are Wolves Again

All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn’t specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even. ~ Callie Hart, Brimstone

Everything alive is sentient. To accept this feels not at all like a humiliation of our species, but it is a humbling of sorts. And a precious gift—the kinship of all these sentient others an antidote to our loneliness. ~ Michael Pollan, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

... A feeling that something is coming, waiting to be born, out of this time. Almost physical, like before a period, or a pregnancy, or vomiting. Something is getting ready to resolve itself. ~ Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional

And yes, I will go into the year as you said: boldly, unapologetically, head up and not taking bullshit from anyone with a penis. ~ Virginia Evans, The Correspondent: A Novel