The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Libraries had always made her feel like a kid, in a good way: secret and safe and taken care of, rocked to sleep in a cocoon of books.” ~ Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

“We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.” ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Nina didn’t hate Carrie Soto for stealing her husband because husbands can’t be stolen. Carrie Soto wasn’t a thief; Brandon Randall was a traitor.” ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Nora.” He just barely smiles. “You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.” ~ Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“I was four years old when I first saw a dragon. I was four years old when I first learned to be silent about dragons. Perhaps this is how we learn silence — an absence of words, an absence of context, a hole in the universe where the truth should be.” ~ Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Some people are lucky like that. They meet their best friend, the love of their life, and are wise enough to never let go.” ~ Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know you were coming or I’d have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

“And what is love, in the end?” Alabaster said. “Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?” ~ Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“People talk a lot about first loves, or the love of your life, but people don’t say as much about the friend of your life.” ~ Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

“That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.” ~ Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“You wanted to lick my face the first time you saw me? Is that usually what you do when you’re attracted to guys?” I shake my head. “Not your face, your dimple. And no. You’re the only guy I’ve ever had the urge to lick.” He smiles at me confidently. “Good. Because you’re the only girl I’ve ever had the urge to love.” ~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“Will this be psychiatry or psychology?” The psychologist asked: “What do you think the difference is?” Zara replied: “You need psychology if you think you’re a dolphin. You need psychiatry if you’ve killed all the dolphins.” ~ Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“If I stepped off a cliff in that heart of his, he’d catch me. He’d put me back in the sun.” ~ Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.” ~ Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“I’m afraid I’m in no position to judge anyone else’s lunacy, just at present....” ~ Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“I’m thinking you might enjoy Moby Dick . It’s a story about how humans continually underestimate other life-forms. At their peril.” ~ Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Because when I finally take those lips in mine, it will be the furthest thing from pretending. I will not be showing you what it would be like if you were mine. I’ll show you what it is. And I sure as hell won’t be showing how good I could make you feel if you called me yours. You’ll already know that I am.” ~ Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

Never before had I seen Homo sapiens so clearly—a species, at its most fundamental level, of storytellers. Creatures who overlay story on everything, but especially their own lives, and in so doing, can imbue a cold, random, sometime brutal existence, with fabricated meaning. ~ Blake Crouch, Upgrade