The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” ~ John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Power was the ability to destroy without needing to. To do it not out of necessity, but as an act of pure excess. ~ Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

Kissing George was like stepping inside a house I’d never seen but somehow knew was home. ~ Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm

If you give a girl a taste of fresh air and then take it away, she will grow fierce and wild to get that fresh air back again. ~ Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

I am not a snob. I just take books more seriously than other people and am bad at pretending otherwise. ~ Laurie Frankel, Enormous Wings

So blind we humans are — so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have... But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another’s selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see. ~ Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say