The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Looking back on it, I sometimes think my life was like a Dickens novel, only with swearing.” ~ Stephen King, Later

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ~ Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

Life with a cheat code isn’t life. Our existence isn’t something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That’s what it is to be human — the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other. ~ Blake Crouch, Recursion

There was a Suli saying: The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true. Her father had liked to recite this when she was training on the wire or the swings. Be decisive , he’d say. You have to know where you want to go before you get there. Her mother had laughed at this. That’s not what that means , she’d say. You take the romance out of everything. ~ Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then? ~ Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Once you saw it all, you could never go back. Everything was alive. Overwhelming. I was overwhelmed eventually. Overcome. Silvina wrote that even through the poisoned landscape, we must love it. We must love what has been damaged, because everything has been damaged. And to love the damage is to know you care about that world. That you're still alive. That the world is alive. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

It came on the wind, the way wicked things must, for they are most often weighted down with spite and haven’t the strength to lift themselves. ~ Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic