The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.” ~ Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“You’re the light in the darkness. The stars that guide you home when you’re lost. You carry the broken from battle and lift the drowning from the clawing cold that’s trying to claim them. You slay the demons.” ~ Ivy Asher, The Bound Witch

For all these centuries, the Founders told us that the Earth died because of greed. That was true, but they lied about whose greed was to blame. ~ N K Jemisin, Emergency Skin

“Some people were meant for great, lasting legacies. Others were meant for small moments of goodness, tiny but that rippled and grew in big, wide waves.” ~ Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“Why don’t different species sit together?” she asked. Segregated transit cars didn’t mesh with what she’d read of the Port’s famed egalitarianism. [snip] “Different species, ” Blue said, “different butts.” ~ Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit ( Wayfarers #2)

“Read from the book all you wish,” she said, “but if you read to the end you will become like us, free of desire... never will you be able to return to your prior form. Go on, child,” said the flickering goddess. “Decide... ” ~ Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“I know it’s scary, being vulnerable, but you can allow yourself to care. You can want to be with people as more than just friends or casual acquaintances.” ~ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I’m still not strictly rational. How could I be? I sell books.” ~ Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“I do not mean to be rude,” Tarine said. “Obviously. But there are men smoking cigarettes in saggy pants outside. I cannot drink the same wine as them.” ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“I’d like you to watch what you’re doing and saying, and if it’s something that doesn’t feel right and true to who you are, if it’s something that exhausts you or makes you unhappy, take a look at why you are doing it. And if there isn’t a good reason...try not doing it.” ~ Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“... a library without members is a cemetery of books,” Miss Reeder said. “Books are like people; without contact, they cease to exist.” ~ Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” ~ Nita Prose, The Maid

“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.” “What causes the other ten percent?” asked Kizzy. “Natural disasters,” said Nib.” ~ Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Journeys begin when, after getting a glimpse of where we can go, we choose to embark on the path. ~ Lisa K Swallow, No One Was Listening

“You’re the person I don’t need to explain myself to—not when it matters. You see everything I am, and you don’t run away from it.” ~ Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood , ( Crescent City #1)

“No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars.” ~ Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife