The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Half of her face is a masterpiece,” the Duke murmured, and my skin flashed cold and then hot as my stomach twisted. “The other half a nightmare.” ... Hawke’s gaze remained fastened on mine as he stepped forward. “Both halves are as beautiful as the whole.” ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I’m not flaunting anything. I’m just existing. This is me. I can’t hide myself. I can’t disappear. And even if I could, I don’t fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist.” ~ Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.” ~ Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Not his-story. My own will be called her-story.” ~ Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

The book I brought is an unauthorized biography of Daisy Jones and the Six . I’m only reading to see who slept with who, but I can’t focus. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

When she made things grow, she experienced a kind of manifest forgiveness, an abiding moving-on and making-new that she found impossible in almost every other sphere of life. ~ Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

“Oh, right, the Monday food group. That’s the saddest food group, full of baby carrots and regret.” ~ Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street