The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“I think I should like to sleep in a flower wi’ you, Sassenach, holding your feet.” ~ Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom...” ~ Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“When she’d met Orquídea Montoya, she saw a whisper of a girl who wanted to become a scream.” ~ Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.” ~ Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“When I signed up for this honeymoon, I had no idea it would involve so much nudity...” ~ Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“I’ll tell you a thousand stories, my love. We’ll write the new endings, one by one.” ~ Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“You can fall in love: someone will catch you.” ~ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

Mrs. Flowers gestures at the measureless shelves. “Each of these books, child, is a door, a gateway to another place and time. You have your whole life in front of you, and for all of it, you’ll have this. It will be enough, don’t you think?” ~ Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“There’s no winning. Either I’m a bitch who needs to control everything, or I’m an easy mark.” ~ Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

Let’s face it, a lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections. ~ Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Life sends us down some strange roads on our way to our destiny.” ~ S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.” ~ Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

Of course he has gorgeous long black eyelashes framing his already captivating green eyes. He’s the most dangerous lure I’ve ever seen: mouthwatering on the outside with a crunchy batshit-crazy center. ~ Ivy Asher, The Bone Witch

“It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.” ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

Strange the efforts these people go to in order to make themselves feel part of history and not a piece of the future. ~ Pierce Brown, Golden Son

Sometimes that’s all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time. ~ N K Jemisin, Emergency Skin