The Saucy Wenches Book Club

He was summer and she was fall. He was adventure and she was comfort. But right now, on the cusp between the two seasons, in this liminal space they’d carved out for themselves, they fit just right. ~ Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.” ~ Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies

“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!” ~ Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.” ~ Liu Cixin, The Three Body Problem

“I told him I was a zero-dimensional, nonexistent point, floating in space, until I met him. Yes, I know. What an embarrassing love letter! Attempting to be poetic about geometry! A modern woman would never write such a thing. You should most definitely exist before you meet a man! You should have your own career, your own hobbies, your own thoughts, and your own financial plan!” ~ Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

I noticed two of the females who worked there were laughing and pointing toward my midsection. Again, I was confused. Weren’t men meant to go in bookshops? Was there some kind of war of ridicule going on between the genders? Did booksellers spend all their time mocking their customers? Or was it that I wasn’t wearing any clothes? Who knew? ~ Matt Haig, The Humans

“That was the day I remembered the future, reimagined a path of years with books to read and bass lines to explore. The idea was so tempting I set it aside, but it kept returning, wider each time. Long walks might be out there down unknown roads.” ~ Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

That’s what we women do. From the hour of our birth to the birth of our daughters to the dying of our grandmothers and mothers, we spin pain on our looms into a joyful fabric, for what would be the point of doing less? ~ Karen Marie Moning, The House at Watch Hill

“Autumn light is the loveliest light there is. Soft, forgiving, it makes all the world a brightened dream.” ~ Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Stars are, after all, in the sky above us, even at midday, but we only see them when the sun takes its leave ... Because, while it’s true that only light can drive out darkness, there are some forms of light that only darkness can reveal. ~ Leigh Ann Henion, Night Magic

Rich people, thought Judy — she thought this then, and she thinks it now — generally become most enraged when they sense they’re about to be held accountable for their wrongs. ~ Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

...like most people who are afflicted by preoccupation with success, he remains oblivious to the true pleasures in life. As such, he is willing to sacrifice them. ~ Molly McGhee, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

“Well,” I say, “life is the process of learning shit that you never ever wanted to hear.” ~ Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir

I always think that the quickest way to understand someone is to look at what’s on their bookshelves. Especially if they are honest bookshelves, not the fancy ornamental kind. And there was nothing fancy or ornamental about this place. ~ Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

Everyone would soon have more riches and power than they knew what to do with. That was the goal. That was the game’s win condition. It never occurred to me that it might also be the losing one. ~ Richard Powers, Playground

“I am never going to know how to live without a community of purpose. I am going to keep looking for this for the rest of my life, whatever happens.” ~ Naomi Alderman, The Future

“The amount of time you spent together probably matters, but less time doesn’t mean less love. Whether it’s a day or year, human or cat, and even if we may never see them again, there are those who are irreplaceable in our lives.” ~ Syou Ishida, We’ll Prescribe You a Cat