The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Sometimes, we need to look at our lives from a different angle to recognize the dysfunction and damage certain relationships are causing.” ~ Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple

“Love was a family religion, passed down to her when she’d been too young to protect herself from belief.” ~ Holly Black, Book of Night

Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin. ~ Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest ( Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2)

“So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.” ~ Emily Henry, Book Lovers

Yet as much as I loved him, I loved myself more. And as I was discovering, there was no end to love—it was something which grew and renewed endlessly, expanding to encompass each new horizon. Family. Friends. And other lovers, too—none of them the same—yet each precious in their own way. ~ Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“I have lived long enough to see that my life has been determined not only by the meanness of others, but also by the kindness of others, and their willingness to listen.” ~ Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

Every single time I see the ocean, even if I’ve been there in the morning, it feels like a new miracle—its power, its blueness always just as overwhelming. Like falling in love. ~ Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

She was a brash, brave, foul-mouthed, murdering drunk , and God help him, he hadn’t found anyone this enticing in centuries. ~ Jeaniene Frost, The Other Half of the Grave ( Night Huntress #1.1)

“You must remember, mijo, even people who were once your sails can become your anchors.” ~ Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

“Romance may be the world’s oldest cult. It hooks you when you’re vulnerable, scares the shit out of you, holds your deepest fears as collateral, renames you something like ‘baby,’ brainwashes you, then makes you think that your soul will wither and die if you let go of a person who loved you. So you better have a good goddamn reason for saying ‘nah, not enough.’ The love lobby is worse than the fun lobby. More misery, more addiction, more heads on spikes. And for what?” ~ Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic

“I’d rather sit out here where it’s quiet. Drink my coffee, and read a book.” ~ Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

“He matters more to me than the voices in my head.” ~ Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun.” ~ Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Despite all the books she’d read in her lifetime, finding the words to say I love you, to the person she had spent the happiest years of her life with, seemed to be the hardest thing in the world.” ~ Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds.” ~ Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“So we don’t own the building,” the director said, “but we hold a ten-thousand-year lease on the space.” ... “Nineteenth-century hubris. Imagine thinking civilization would still exist in ten thousand years. But there’s more.” She leaned forward, paused for effect. “The lease is renewable.” ~ Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“They are strange, even beautiful, organic things that shift and curl beyond the page, slowly resolving into shapes.” ~ V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.” ~T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door