The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Screw logic, the odds, or anything else in their way. Bones could no more leave her behind than he could shed his own skin. She was that much a part of him now. ~ Jeaniene Frost, The Other Half of the Grave ( Night Huntress #1.1)

“You don’t have to be a terrible person to intentionally try to change the time line. You just have to have a moment of weakness. Really just a moment. When I say weakness, I might mean something more like humanity.” ~ Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

She might well be strong, fierce, gorgeous, brave, but adding naked to that list surely crossed the line of Proper Femininity. Charlotte had spent her entire life trying to balance on that line, pulled one way by the dictates of society, and the other by her own sensitivities and intelligence. She could usually approximate nice behavior by watching people and reading books. ~ India Holton, The League of Gentlewomen Witches ( Dangerous Damsels #2)

The boy has multiple expressions for the various feelings one experiences in the rain: most convey wretchedness, but several do not. One is the same sound as joy. ~ Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“If you’re looking for How Not to Be an Asshole , it’s shelved between Bye, Loser and Get the Fuck Out .” ~ Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Don’t cheat your friendships. Don’t ask them to mean less to you than they do, or think they only have value if they’re a stop on the way to a *real* relationship. All relationships are real. Friendship can be as deep as the ocean. It’s all a kind of love, and love isn’t any one kind of thing.” ~ Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

“The sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better off you’ll be.” ~ Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette

“They didn’t understand, they just didn’t understand. You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.” ~ Omar El Akkad, American War

It was the kind of look that reminded him she’d set him on fire the first time she’d met him without even batting an eye. He’d like her more if she did it more often. ~ Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“I want to be the person she thought I was, a confident motherfucker who wouldn’t give a shit about any of this. But I do give a shit. I want to be enough — for her, for me, for the people in my life.” ~ Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

While some couples’ togetherness tends to affect their work in a negative way, it was just the opposite for Elizabeth and Calvin. They were working even when they weren’t working—fueling each other’s creativity and inventiveness with a new point of view—and while the scientific community would later marvel at their productivity, they probably would have marveled even more had they realized most of it was done naked. ~ Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“You know the phrase I keep thinking about?” a poet asked, on a different panel, at a festival in Copenhagen. “ ‘The chickens are coming home to roost.’ Because it’s never good chickens. It’s never ‘You’ve been a good person and now your chickens are coming home to roost.’ It’s never good chickens. It’s always bad chickens.” ~ Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“My God, it was incredible. But you’re an unmarried woman, and I’ve corrupted you. When your future husband realizes you’re not a virgin, what will you tell him?” “To angle slightly to the left, and rub with his thumb.” ~ India Holton, The League of Gentlewomen Witches ( Dangerous Damsels #2)

The male stepped forward, tucking in his wings. He smiled slightly and said in the Old Language, in a voice like glorious night, “Hello, Bryce Quinlan. My name is Rhysand.” ~ Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Education in all its forms—from elementary to secondary to further education and professional training—is the beating heart of the infrastructure of opportunity. It has the potential to define and redefine who you are and who you will be. For me, it was everything.” ~ Fiona Hill, There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

I felt the competing desires, as I often did when meeting someone new, to know everything at once and to save it all for later. It was like the feeling one has reading a good book, the sensation of being propelled toward the end and at the same time wishing to linger. ~ Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

“A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, of course, a sight to behold, but a man with honor — ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.” ~ Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me ( Bridgertons #2)