The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“I hope the devil eats your soul and salts it well first, you whore!” ~ Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood

Just One Damn Thing After Another , Jodi Taylor

We are the shepherds. The time for that was done. Better to be a rattler. Better to be a jackal. ~ Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

Courage is not the absence of fear, Pete knew. Courage requires fear. ~ Alex North, The Whisper Man

You didn’t need faith to fly, you needed to understand flying. ~ Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind ― how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.” ~ Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Fortune favors the brave,” I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself. Magic Breaks , Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels #7

The woman made a noise, like the crunching of leaves, like the dripping of water onto a pond, like the buzzing of insects in the pitch-black darkness, and Noemí wished to press her hands against her ears, but she had no hands anymore. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“You know what they say about finding a man in Alaska — the odds are good, but the goods are odd.” ~ Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

They have a hunger on them. They never stop taking. They mortgaged their souls away and now they eat and eat and eat and never know how to stop. ~ Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

Thus, in the ballroom of the Metropol Hotel on the twenty-first of June 1926, was the heretic, Galileo of Galilei, vindicated by a ping, a splat, a smash, a thunk, a thump, and a thud. ~ Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication.” ~ Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

“But I still bake a little on the sly. My rebellion against the dictator state.” ― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

In every life there are events that reshape one’s sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed. ~ Annie Proulx, Barkskins

His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candlelight. ~ Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left

But for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress. ~ N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky ( Broken Earth #3)

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?” ~ Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.” ― Sally Rooney, Normal People

One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” ~ Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist