The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Most of all she missed making him laugh so hard he spat his breakfast out. That sort of thing only got more fun with age, especially after he got false teeth. ~ Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

By the time they’d finished their tea, they were almost in love with each other – not quite yet, because true love took time and memories, but as close to love as first impressions could take them. ~ R.F. Kuang, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

“There are birds, and then there are other birds. Maybe they don’t sing. Maybe they don’t fly. Maybe they don’t fit in. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be an other bird rather than just the same old thing.” ~ Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“The librarian is the most important educator in school. What she doesn’t know, she can find out. This is not an opinion; it’s a fact. Do not share this fact with Mrs. Mudford.” ~ Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“F#%k all the firsts, Sky. The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers.” ~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“Words can damn or bless in equal measure, and are never to be used lightly.” ~ Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

My older self knows that you must stop—in the middle of the chaos—to take in the world around you. To breathe in deeply, smell the sunscreen and the rubber of the ball, let the breeze blow across your neck, feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. In this respect, I love the way the world has aged me. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“There is no room for sorrow in a heart full of fire.” ~ Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“I fed my last husband to my dragon. If you make me take another, I may eat him myself.” ~ George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood ( A Targaryen History #1)

It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing. ~ Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“... I hadn’t understood that people you loved could do things you didn’t love. And, still, you could keep loving them.” ~ Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

She tries not to be judgmental about reading—No such thing as a guilty pleasure is Cathy’s motto, and it’s one Hannah largely subscribes to. Jeffrey Archer to Geoffrey Chaucer, Outlander to The Outsider — they all keep the wheels of publishing turning ... and if they give someone a happy few hours, that’s good enough for her. ~ Ruth Ware, The It Girl

Clive’s needs had to take a backseat for a while. Or rather, his needs had to get out of the car completely. They had to be curbed. Not forever, but for the moment. ~ Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

But know this. Men are not from Mars. Women are not from Venus. Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theatre of your mind for the main role. ~ Matt Haig, The Humans

Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire? ~ Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

She also ended up switching her major to child psychology, which in time would afford her not the slightest insight into any of her children, at least not when it mattered. ~ Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Latecomer