The Saucy Wenches Book Club

She appeared to have jumped out of the frying pan of sexism and into the fire of ageism. The final frontier of isms. ~ Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

In winter, I want concepts to chew over in a pool of lamplight—slow, spiritual reading, a reinforcement of the soul. Winter is a time for libraries, the muffled quiet of bookstacks and the scent of old pages and dust. In winter, I can spend hours in silent pursuit of a half-understood concept or a detail of history. There is nowhere else to be, after all. ~ Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“The first rule is that you don’t fall in love,” he said ... “There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. If you stick to this you will just about be okay.” ~ Matt Haig, How To Stop Time

By now I’d read enough to know what irony meant but not what a devious bastard it is. ~ Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

When it was time to decide the official food of movie-watching, human beings did not go for Fig Newtons or caramel, foods that are silent, but popcorn, the loudest sound on Earth. ~ Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

“To the ones who don’t run with the popular crowd, the ones who get caught reading under their desks, the ones who feel like they never get invited, included, or represented. Get your leathers. We have dragons to ride.” ~ Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

But Christopher didn’t have the words, then, to explain what, nonetheless, he knew: that sometimes, if you are among the very lucky, a spark of understanding cuts like lightning across the space between two people. It’s a defibrillator for the heart. And it toughens you. It nourishes you. And the word we’ve chosen for it (which is an insufficient word for being so abruptly upended in a new and finer place) is friendship! ~ Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures