The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“You were such a lonely little girl, weren’t you? Whispering to grass. Befriending sticks. Dreaming yourself into movies and books. Every screen, every page, like a door to another world, remember?” ~ Mona Awad, Rouge

“Wherever you are, the richness and complexity and inexhaustible, unplumbable thereness of the whole rushes in through your eyes and your ears and your nose and across your skin. Every single thing around you is right there and so are you. The teeming world is right there, and all of it is neither good nor bad, it just is.” ~ Naomi Alderman, The Future

“How are you so smart?” I asked, suddenly confronting myself with the fact that a cat was typing and understood theories of class and labor. “No offense, but your brain is the size of a walnut.” HOW ARE SO MANY HUMANS SO UNINTELLIGENT? Hera typed back. THEY HAVE BRAINS THE SIZE OF SEVERAL WALNUTS. ~ John Scalzi, Starter Villain

To let the infotainment bath of the day stream over you was to slowly scrub away at the skin of your own humanity. ~ Stephen Markley, The Deluge

There’s a gaping hole in my memory from the moment I answered the phone on my desk on what was definitely a blue-sky summer’s day until the moment I woke on the park bench this morning to the biting chill of an approaching winter. ~ Megan Goldin, Stay Awake

Turn your face up to the sky. Listen. The world is trembling into possibility. The world is reminding us that this is what the world does best. New life. Rebirth. The greenness that rises out of ashes. ~ Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year