The Saucy Wenches Book Club

You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time. ~ Patricia Briggs, Wild Sign

Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here. ~ This is How You Lose the Time War , Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

“...she was trapped between competing desires, a desire for a more meaningful connection and the desire to never change. She wished for eternal youth and endless merriment.” ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? ~ V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Nowhere else can he escape the noise and life and people around him; nowhere else is he able to let the world recede, the sense of himself dissolve, so that he is just a hand, holding an ink-dipped feather, and he may watch as words unfurl from its tip. And as these words come, one after another, it is possible for him to slip away from himself and find a peace so absorbing, so soothing, so private, so joyous that nothing else will do. ~ Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

I would like to have a true friendship, rather than a tiresome dance of manners and obsequiousness. ~ C. L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

“I’ve had three children . . . And some man who’s never felt . . . his baby crown is stronger than me? Is tougher than me?” Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires