The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.” ~ Stephen King, Holly

“What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?” ~ Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“People said that a single day without a dear friend could feel like three autumns.” ~ Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“My favorite season is autumn, because my mum and I both believed that’s the only time when magic can be tasted in the air.” ~ Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“She should at least keep chickens,” said the dust-wife. “Or take up gardening. Immortality is wretched, but you can always make the best of it.” ~ T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“But I will not run. I wouldn’t be standing here if I’d quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome. I will not die today.” ~ Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Reading is not a hobby,” she said. “It is a way of life.” ~ India Holton, The Secret Service of Tea and Treason

“And how much simpler things would be, how much better for us all, if we had people brave enough to do what was right, instead.” ~ Hugh Howey, Shift ( Silo #2)

“You think you’re being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager’s nose?” ~ Elton John, Me

Almost nothing in Florida stays the way it was. It’s bought, sold, paved over, and reimagined in a cycle that never quits. The landscape I saw through my father’s windshield as a child has been so thoroughly erased I sometimes wonder if I made it up. ~ Anne Hull, Through the Groves: A Memoir

“It’s about falling so wildly in love with him—the way one will at twenty-four—that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight. There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end, nor did it occur to me to care.” ~ Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“It isn’t your anger that will make you good at this job. It is your joy.” ~ Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.” ~ Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.” ~ David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“Then,” Beowulf says wistfully, “your beauty is nuanced and labyrinthine like a sentence by Proust.” ~ Mona Awad, Bunny

“...grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long enough time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.” ~ Jimmy Buffett, A Salty Piece of Land

Point taken. Not that we’re a couple. Not that I wouldn’t climb the man like a tree if presented with the right set of circumstances. ~ Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing