The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Sometimes, we need to look at our lives from a different angle to recognize the dysfunction and damage certain relationships are causing.” ~ Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple

“Love was a family religion, passed down to her when she’d been too young to protect herself from belief.” ~ Holly Black, Book of Night

Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin. ~ Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest ( Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2)

“So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.” ~ Emily Henry, Book Lovers

Yet as much as I loved him, I loved myself more. And as I was discovering, there was no end to love—it was something which grew and renewed endlessly, expanding to encompass each new horizon. Family. Friends. And other lovers, too—none of them the same—yet each precious in their own way. ~ Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“I have lived long enough to see that my life has been determined not only by the meanness of others, but also by the kindness of others, and their willingness to listen.” ~ Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

Every single time I see the ocean, even if I’ve been there in the morning, it feels like a new miracle—its power, its blueness always just as overwhelming. Like falling in love. ~ Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace