The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Love is such a dangerous and powerful emotion. The gods curse it, for it has power. Empires have fallen for it, reduced to sand and scriptures. Worlds have burned for it, and they will once more. Love has the power to touch even the untouchable. Use it.” ~ Amber V. Nicole, The Throne of Broken Gods

Do not wait for people to be flawless before you allow yourself to adore them. Adore them anyway. ~ Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

Time. But Navajos didn’t hurry. In fact, there was no word in the Navajo language for time. ~ Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“This is not planet Earth as we found it. This is a new place — a fire planet we have made, with an atmosphere more conducive to combustion than at any time in the past 3 million years.” ~ John Vaillant, Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World

Cultural shock was nothing much compared to the biological shock I suffered as a human male among human beings who were, five-sixths of the time, hermaphroditic neuters. ~ Ursula K LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“It’s never easy to realize that the people who are supposed to protect us are the ones who can create the deepest scars.” ~ Kaylie Smith, Enchantra

You need a story about your own life, or the bad stuff in your head writes the story for you. He got it. He did. Why his mother had told a different story from the one she’d been given. She had made her story better. ~ Annie Hartnett, The Road to Tender Hearts