The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Time is a treacherous mistress. In our youth it flows slow and deep; the days stretch out endlessly. When we are children, a summer lasts for a century. As we age, the flow of time speeds up. Suddenly, a year vanishes with the snap of one’s fingers. How quickly time eludes us, how easily it tricks us.” ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Bewitching

Love is a light you can see only when you reach for it. You hold it in your hand and, for as long as the flame glows, it warms you. ~ Caroline Lea, Love, Sex, and Frankenstein

I tug on her hand, trying to pull her up. “I want your tits in my mouth.” “And I want your dick in mine,” she replies with an evil smirk.” ~ Meghan Quinn, Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal

“What a gift that is. To still wish and dream and want. To find the good. To wear it on your sleeve.” ~ B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“Every day we should feel, I hope, a little grace. And we can use it to bring peace in everything we do, to reconcile and bear quiet witness to our common humanity. Sorry. I don’t really have anything special to say...” “Actually,” said their mother, “that was perfect.” ~ Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Bookshop

“If we get to the point where we don’t help each other anymore, that’s when we stop being human.” ~ Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“I deserve you least of all. But I want you the most. And I won’t give up.” ~ Ali Hazelwood, Cruel Winter with You

“Love is a funny thing... It’s not always big or loud or over the top. Most of the time, it’s quiet and unassuming. It’s a shared cup of coffee on a rainy day or reading side by side together every night. It’s finding the person who gets you. The person who will have your back through it all... Your person.” ~ Laurie Gilmore, The Gingerbread Bakery

Oh, how faint grows the heart of man when he plucks it—still beating—from his chest and lays it at the foot of a woman. ~ Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.” ~ Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“I could spend an eternity studying you and still not know what you might do next. You give so much of yourself, so freely. You’re . . . wild with your attentions. Miraculous. I’ve seen so many lives, Harriet, but I’ve never seen someone live like you.” ~ B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“You’ve got that look about you.” “What look?” “Well, not to be rude, but you’re all fucked up, aren’t you?” ~ R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

Girls—normal human girls—people could contend with; they were weak and small. And dogs too could be trained. But girls who became dogs, or who let the world believe they were dogs, were either powerful or mad: both monstrous possibilities. ~ Xenobe Purvis, The Hounding

It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist. ~ Omar El Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“And why didn’t you just knock on the door and introduce yourself like a normal human being? Say, Hey, I’m your next-door neighbor ? Instead, you chose to part my bush with your crowbar.” He smirks a stupid smirk. “Part your bush with my crowbar, huh?” ~ Meghan Quinn, Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal

“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about. “I wish someone would have thought to say to me, earlier on, ‘Sybil, over and over again serpents will emerge from the bottom of the sea and grab you by the feet.’ Of course I didn’t say anything of the sort to my own children, and I probably never would.” ~ Virginia Evans, The Correspondent: A Novel

“What’s different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable, and has been since the mid-1950s. We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose not to live in that world.” ~ John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis

“And remember,” the voice said, “what is laughter but a moment of release where pain and memory are washed away? When we laugh, we are stronger. When we laugh, we heal the world.” ~ Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark