The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Nothing, I knew, was as powerful as curiosity. I had always considered it more powerful than lust. After all, wasn’t that why Adam bit into the apple? Because he was curious? Because he needed to know? For research. ~ Katy Hays, The Cloisters

Sadie, however ... Marx felt that she was another story ... there was something richer and more interesting and complicated about her than the people he typically dated ... Marx was a prodigious reader, and he felt like Sadie might be the kind of book that one could read many times, and always come away with something new. ~ Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.” ~ Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.” ~ Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.” ~ Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

How many iterations of the human face exist, how many ways in which mouth, nose and eyes can be arranged! ~ Maggie O’Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“Because while stupid people may not know they’re stupid because they’re stupid, surely unattractive people must know they’re unattractive because of mirrors.” ~ Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Sex isn’t what makes a relationship real; the willingness to expend effort maintaining it is.” ~ Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it.” ~ Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“Do you think they know what it means to love? ... That it isn’t the simple joy of fondness, I mean. In fact it’s violent, destructive. It means to cut the heart out of your chest and give it to someone else.” ~ Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“Oh, you’re moonlight,” he’d said. “Harder to see, but there for those who look.” ~ Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

“Why do men fixate on the past when every woman I have ever known is trying to remedy the present while she builds hope for what is to come?” ~ Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester

“Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense.” ~ Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

Women are raised to be accommodating, so I suppose a woman who draws clear lines that others are not allowed to cross becomes remarkable for that fact alone. ~ Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break. ~ Lia Louis, Eight Perfect Hours

Memories had teeth, and sometimes they took a big chunk out of you. ~ Leylah Attar, The Night Blossoms

Okay. So. Interview With The Vampire just came out on AMC+. But it's one episode weekly. What do you do in the meantime to get your sexy, queer, intelligent, suave vampire fix?? Let me tell you. Oh, let me tell you!

The world isn’t perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn’t apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it’s about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn’t perfection. The point is doing it anyway. ~ Chloe Neill, Biting Cold ( Chicagoland Vampires #6)

I believe the first aliens we encounter will rise to greet us from the sea. ~ Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea