The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.” ~ Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“If a girl can't get herself off next to her crush after breaking the space-time continuum, then honestly, when can she?” ~ Erin Sterling, The Wedding Witch

“In winter”, said Merowdis, lost in her thoughts, “the wood is supposed to be asleep. That is what people say. But I don't think it's true. In spring and summer the trees and creatures are preoccupied. Everyone is busy. In winter there is silence.” There was silence. But not an empty silence. “In winter the wood is listening”, said Merowdis. ~ Susanna Clarke, The Wood at Midwinter

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Because if you stop you admit the bad stuff has won, don’t you? All you can do is keep going. Refuse to be beaten, even when you are beaten. The bad stuff only wins if you let it. I refuse to be beaten, Cassie. I refuse.” ~ Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“His smile makes me want to swear my soul to whatever god created him ... And he talks like a poet, a cadence in his words that’s half song. It cracks my chest apart. Decides something for me that I hadn’t known was an option.” ~ Sara Raasch, The Nightmare Before Kissmas

As far as I knew, there hadn’t been a space program since it had failed—decades ago—to return a profit for investors ...he gently informed me astronaut was the prevailing idiom for the sixteen or so families who ran coastal economies and owned mineral rights and satellite clusters and news factories and prisons and most clean water and such shipping as remained. ~ Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse