The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Kissing George was like stepping inside a house I’d never seen but somehow knew was home. ~ Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm

If you give a girl a taste of fresh air and then take it away, she will grow fierce and wild to get that fresh air back again. ~ Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

I am not a snob. I just take books more seriously than other people and am bad at pretending otherwise. ~ Laurie Frankel, Enormous Wings

So blind we humans are — so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have... But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another’s selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see. ~ Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

“Oh God! He said he was DTF...we thought that meant down to finance .” Tilly lets out a wallop of a laugh. “DTF...girl, that’s the acronym for down to fuck .” ~ Meghan Quinn, Rules for the Summer

“There comes a point in every marriage when a woman realizes that the man she married is a freak. This is inevitable. It cannot be avoided. The only real question in the matter is what type of freak your husband will be—meaning: if you are lucky, you will find out your husband is preternaturally into vintage children’s train sets, and you will not find out that your husband pays high school cheerleaders for sex. That is the best we homemakers can hope for in this life: a man whose freakishness is not unspeakably violent or technically illegal, and therefore is something we are able to bear.” ~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

The ocean was a magician, I saw that now. These waves, their rippling crests and troughs, were an illusory trick, a veneer for everything that existed beneath. I had glimpsed that other world, and the one I had been born into was transformed forever. ~ EJ Swift, The Coral Bones

It’s just that we’re destroying the planet for real and no one seems to give a shit — and then something bad happens to one of us, a human being, and it’s “earth-shattering”. ~ Eric Puchner, Dream State

“You are not replaceable,” he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people.” ~ SenLinYu, Alchemised

One afternoon, as I lay on my bed wallowing in self-pity, my mom handed me a thick fantasy book, and when I turned my nose up at it, she told me, “Maggie, you need to live in someone else’s head for a bit.” ~ Ilona Andrews, This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

“It turns out executing a deliberate, convincing distraction is a lot harder than being a distraction accidentally.” ~ Martha Wells, Platform Decay ( The Murderbot Diaries #8)

Believe the lie — trust the lie — it is the only thing you have. Stay in the cage and paint the walls. If you do not, then you must quit; but if you can delude yourself long enough, then your delusions might very well come true. ~ R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“When your mama is in heaven there is nothing to stop her from loving you – not a man, not a job, not whatever she wanted to be doing but she had kids instead. When the sun shines, you can feel that pure love on you. It tastes like sugarcane.” ~ Tayari Jones, Kin

“Even at my most fucked up I like to make sense. At least to myself. Don’t you?” ~ Mason Coile (Andrew Pyper), Exiles

We want women like us. Women who present as scary, but have good hearts. Women who know how to get shit done. Women who, despite our age, share a dirty little secret: we’re just getting started. ~ Maria Semple, Go Gentle

“One day we’ll see that our perception of being alone in the world was once humankind’s greatest shared delusion.” ~ Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets

...the immortal words that flowed forth from mission specialist Jack Vo’s mouth as he became the first human to set foot on this new planet were: What the fuck is that? ~ Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate