The Saucy Wenches Book Club

You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time. ~ Patricia Briggs, Wild Sign

Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here. ~ This is How You Lose the Time War , Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

“...she was trapped between competing desires, a desire for a more meaningful connection and the desire to never change. She wished for eternal youth and endless merriment.” ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? ~ V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Nowhere else can he escape the noise and life and people around him; nowhere else is he able to let the world recede, the sense of himself dissolve, so that he is just a hand, holding an ink-dipped feather, and he may watch as words unfurl from its tip. And as these words come, one after another, it is possible for him to slip away from himself and find a peace so absorbing, so soothing, so private, so joyous that nothing else will do. ~ Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

I would like to have a true friendship, rather than a tiresome dance of manners and obsequiousness. ~ C. L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

“I’ve had three children . . . And some man who’s never felt . . . his baby crown is stronger than me? Is tougher than me?” Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

It is entirely possible to be alone in a crowded room. Your solitude only compounded by the faces around you. The presence of others serving only to remind you of how lonely you truly are. Obsidio , ( The Illuminae Files #3) Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

I never judged a book by its beginning. It felt like the first and last date I’d once had, both of us smiling too brightly. No, I opened to a page in the middle, where the author wasn’t trying to impress me. ~ Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“That’s the key, isn’t it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it ... that’s the important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder.” She gestured to the stars zooming past. “The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.” ~ Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“If I were a character in a novel, I’d snipe the bitch who wrote my life this way.” ~ Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives — or to find strength in a very long one.” ~ V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.” ~ T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

Love is. Only is. The greatest and most powerful magic in the world. Never stop believing in it. Life is only unbearably long if you live it without your heart. ~Karen Marie Moning, Kingdom of Shadow and Light

Why want another universe if this one has dogs? ~ Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“If I had been replaced with a reasonable facsimile of the person I’d been, would anyone notice?” ~ Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

Listen; life is worth a fight. Expectation must be shed like winter leaves. Even in death, there is wondrous beauty. And death is not The End. ~ Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“The first time I saw that look on your face, you were still human. Still human, and I nearly went to my knees before you.” ~ Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames