The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Sadie liked the phrase “an abundance of caution.” It reminded her of a murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a pack of wolves. She imagined that “caution” was a creature of some kind—maybe, a cross between a Saint Bernard and an elephant. A large, intelligent, friendly animal that could be counted on to defend the Green sisters from threats, existential and otherwise. ~ Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

No one’s having any fun, we’re all just sitting around scolding each other for doing too much or not enough — and it’s like, what kind of vision for the future is that? Where’s the hope? Where’s the humanity? We’re all aspiring to be monks when we could be aspiring to be lovers. ~ Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

Her own family was a restaurant booth—you could always scoot in and make space for one more. Cord’s family was a table with chairs, and those chairs were bolted to the floor. ~ Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.” ~ Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom ( Six of Crows #2)

“Look, this may be the alcohol talking ...” “That’s all right. It’s certainly the alcohol listening... What do you want?” ~ Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past ( The Chronicles of St. Mary’s #5)

She’d never liked that phrase, diamond in the rough. All that meant was they had to cut you again and again to let the light in. ~ Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself. ~ Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.” ~ Amanda Gorman, The Power of Firsts

“Am I radiating openness? Do you feel the warmth of the springtime sun when I’m near? If so, please understand that sensation is actually my fiery disdain.” ~ Lamar Giles, Endangered

“In the end, a fairy tale is nothing more than a sense of hope. Hope lures and tricks. It tempts with shining thrones, exquisite nectars, and loving arms. It whispers to us that we are extraordinary. Exempt. Thus lured, we follow its path. Sometimes we are led to riches. Other times, we are led astray. But this hope never hides its shape, and for its honesty we reach for it and pull its sweet and stinking furs up to our chins, for to live without it means living without magic.” ~ Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

“I know what I want long term, but sometimes in the moment you really need to know someone has never seen anything better than your ass.” ~ Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & the Six

‘It’s not just Professor Penrose, you know. The world is full of men who find me irresistible.’ ‘Really? Well, I’ll be blowed.’ ‘After that last comment — unlikely.’ ~ Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance ( The Chronicles of St. Mary’s #3)

Greed is a sin in every language. ~ Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

Imagine you’re a bird. You can be any kind of bird, but those of you who’ve chosen ostrich or chicken are going to struggle to keep up. ~ Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill