The Saucy Wenches Book Club

He watches the woman and her dog walk back down the alley. She stops and draws her finger through the air, as if she were writing something on the sky. The mist swirls and snakes around her like a great pale cat. It draws itself into a shape like an archway or a door. She steps through it, and is gone. ~ Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it. ~ Once a Witch , Carolyn MacCullough

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” ... “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder . Someone gives you a harsh look, murder . Someone disrespects you, murder . Someone ruins your laundry, murder .” [snip] “Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder,” Locke calls after me. “We would be surprised to find that,” I call back. ― Holly Black, The Wicked King

That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible. ~ Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“It’s not an obstacle course,” he said. “You can’t go around it—you have to go through it. Walk with your head up no matter what they throw at you.” ~ Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.” ~ Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree