The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it. ~ Colleen Hoover, Slammed

The world wasn’t split into unhappy endings and happily ever afters. There were blessings everywhere and a thousand shades of joy all around him. ~ Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows. ~ Hugh Howey, Wool ( Silo #1)

But the truth was not about meaning: It was about the control of meaning. It was about mastery. ~ Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“He was her heart. He had changed all the molecules inside her. Sylvie had known love would come for her with the force of a tsunami. She’d dreamed of this” ~ Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“We need you strong, not skinny. Muscles and curves are all good here. Never make yourself smaller to suit someone who wants to feel big.” ~ Delilah S. Dawson, The Violence

“All God’s children have to take a shit, but you’d never know it from the way they treat the ones who have to clean it up.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Intelligence will only get you so far in life... And the same can be said for wit and charm. But two things will serve you better than any others.” ... “What are they?” “Infinite curiosity and sense of observation.” ~ Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

She’d read a lifetime’s worth of romance novels and had no trouble picturing the physical possibilities: his mouth on her neck, his broad shoulders crowding her against a wall, his hands hiking her skirts up around her waist. Not that she wore skirts, but the closet of her sexual subconscious was full of petticoats. It was the other parts of the fantasy that gave her trouble. ~ Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Because dogs let go of all of their anger daily, hourly, and never let it fester. They absolve and forgive with each passing minute. Every turn of a corner is the opportunity for a clean slate. Every bounce of a ball brings joy and the promise of a fresh chase. ~ Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“It’s always the books you don’t have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones on your shelf. They can wait.” ~ Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“You are in all of my happiest places. You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.” ~ Emily Henry, Happy Place

He only grinned, still basking in the unfamiliar yet wondrous sensations she brought out in him. Yes, she was fantasizing about ripping both of her weapons through his heart while he was feeling things he’d only heard of before, but who said romance was perfect? ~ Jeaniene Frost, The Other Half of the Grave ( Night Huntress #8)

Stop micromanaging your life and just live it; joy and meaning will follow. Find the happy medium between being daring and responsible. Cultivate that balance. Do your best. Be good to yourself, even when—especially when—life isn’t being good to you. ~ Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

As a general rule, I like holes. A hole at the top of my tank gives me freedom. But I do not like the hole in her heart. She only has one [heart], not three, like me. ~ Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

For decades I had been sleepwalking through my life; I’d chosen basically nothing that hadn’t already been chosen for me; I’d spoken with others’ words in my mouth, like an actor reciting his lines. It was what the world taught us to do, but it was no way to live, and now, for the first time, I felt like I was waking up. ~ Justin Cronin, The Ferryman

“What would you say to a little excursion? This weekend, or even... this afternoon?” He inched the chair closer still, capturing my bare legs between his knees. Yum. To be trapped this way, his body heat radiating through the fabric of his jeans. “Excursions are good... and I’m good, with any of those options.” ~ Susanna Hoffs, This Bird Has Flown

“I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.” ~ Connie Willis, Doomsday Book