The Saucy Wenches Book Club

“Cats are assholes. I get it. But do you know why people like cats, despite their asshole-ness? It’s because they don’t fucking talk . If they did, and they were all like you, they’d all be extinct because we’d have killed you all by now.” ~ Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Such liberty and abandon, such fearful defiance. They were brilliant in their avarice, quarrelsome beyond imagining, ready to die for bad and good ideas alike. ~ Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

Taking my assigned cue once more, all the world being if not a stage then at least a farce, I cleared my throat and intoned my line as if it were gospel truth. “I listen with a good heart.” ~ Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“He tastes like lost dreams and a thousand sleepless nights. He tastes like young love and bitter heartbreak.” ~ Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

Whenever I am told to go back to where I came from, I can’t help but think: Why don’t you go where I came from? You’d love it there. ~ Omar El Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first.” ~ Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men