The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“We are all flawed, complicated, wounded dreamers; we have more in common with one another than we don’t. Sometimes making the world a better place just involves creating space for the people who are already in it.” ~ Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, Mad Honey

‘You’re going to let Professor Rapson tinker with your chair? You’ll probably go into orbit. What sort of idiot are you?’ ‘I’m hoping I’m the idiot who works for you, Dr. Maxwell.’ ‘So am I. You sound too good to be true. What’s your position on chocolate?’ ‘You can never have enough,’ he said, pulling a handful of miscellaneous chocolate bars from mysterious depths. ‘You’re hired,’ I said. ‘Starting now.’ ~ Jodi Taylor, A Symphony of Echoes ( The Chronicles of St. Mary’s #2)

“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.” ~ Jennette McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died

“Watching him closely after he paid for the books and took the package into his hands, I saw his pupils dilate the way a diner’s do when food is brought to the table.” ~ Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“But knowing everything is too much like knowing nothing; without a story, it’s all just information.” ~ Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

“You know your problem?” “A predilection for first editions and women who like to lecture me about myself? “An unhealthy respect for the rules.” ~ Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Each time you do something generous, you’re shaping yourself into someone who’s more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.” ~ Ted Chiang, Exhalation