The Saucy Wenches Book Club

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall. ~ Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

“What I would give to find myself in that library, to run my hands over the books, to smell their pages. To learn everything they had to offer. It was my birthright, not his. “You think so highly of yourself. Knowledge can only be wielded by those who dive into its depths and know the shape of it. Reading—” “—without true understanding is only wading in the shallows without a care for the monsters that lurk beneath,” Bayan finished. ~ Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“You told me once that one lifetime of human love was worth the loss.” ~ Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“People just wanted to hear their own voices, your response a comma punctuating their monologue.” ~ Emma Cline, The Guest

“If you fancy living in a despondent world of unending, delusional bullshit, I really can’t recommend cocaine highly enough.” ~ Elton John, Me

“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.” ~ Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Gravity is a bitch until she’s on your side.” ~ Hugh Howey, Dust ( Silo #3)

“For trans and nonbinary youth: You’re beautiful. You’re important. You’re valid. You’re perfect.” ~ Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“That is because I believe what you put in your body is your business, and that,” she added, raising her teacup to her lips, “includes penises.” ~ Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“...history viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.” ~ Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it. The painful things you were certain you’d never be able to let go? Now you’re not entirely sure when they happened, while the thrilling parts, the heart-stopping joys, splintered and scattered and became something else. Memories are then replaced by different joys and larger sorrows, and unbelievably, those things get knocked aside as well, until one morning you’re picking cherries with your three grown daughters and your husband goes by on the Gator and you are positive that this is all you’ve ever wanted in the world.” ~ Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Beautiful. Fucking. Asshole. My breath catches and my body warms, the traitorous bitch. You are not attracted to toxic men, I remind myself, and yet, here I am, getting all attracted. I have been since the first second I saw him, if I feel like being honest. ~ Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

He studies my face for several moments, like he cannot stop on the cover or the first page, like he needs to read the whole book every time. ~ Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

I love her, he thought. I love her so much. How could he not? She was Ahilya. She was the beacon of everything that was right and true with him; she had always been his guiding star, and when he had lost sight of her—that was when he had lost himself. ~ Kritika H. Rao, The Surviving Sky

“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic.” ~ Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Right? Because hot eventually gets boring, but funny never does.” ~ Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

“Emahla, for you. I would drink a thousand lies just to see your face again.” ~ Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“We readers have a strange relationship with the books we love. We want more of our favorite tales, but please make them different from each other, but please don’t fuck them up, and please give us lots, but please don’t go on forever, and please end thousands of pages in a way that’s super tidy and satisfying and give us exactly what we expect, but don’t let us see it coming. Good luck.” ~ Hugh Howey, Shift ( Silo #2)

“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.” ~ Jennifer Saint, Ariadne