The Saucy Wenches Book Club

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

The prime directive of all living beings is simple — do what you must — but only the wicked do what they can.

~ W.H. Chizmar, Them

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

And I wonder how I ever believed not falling in love with this male was an option. How I ever believed I was capable of pulling myself from his atmosphere.

~ Sarah A. Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

There was something about him slightly more suggestible than other children, a thinness between the world he lived in and the world of stories. Not entirely unexpected of a child of two people devoted to books.

~ Daniel Mason, Country People

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Mostly, Mad just didn’t like feeling any more uncomfortable than she already would be, filing into a huge arena to watch a sport that, truth be told, she didn’t exactly comprehend. But they were here, right? This is what a family did. They showed up for things they didn’t totally understand and wore uncomfortable clothes and they shouted your name nonstop because they wanted you to understand that, win or lose, they loved you.

~ Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

—Not a preamble. A beginning. And it’s too late now to make a difference to the outcome. All we can do is choose who we will save.

—And let everyone else go hang?

She smiled at me, a tight little smile.

—Or save no one at all.

~ Jessie Greengrass, The High House

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“A Dirty Shirley,” I said.

“Yeah, I want to try that one.”

“Cats don’t drink cocktails,” I said.

“Cats don’t shoot lasers from their eyes, either, but here we are, Carl. Mama needs a night off.”

~ Matt Dinniman, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Well, I believe we’re all one. Same consciousness of awareness or whatever you want to call it. The universe is expanding now but soon — in a few more billion years — we’ll start shrinking back again to what we were before the Big Bang. We’ll get smaller and smaller and then for a moment we’ll be a tiny speck. After that they say we’ll be nothing — we won’t exist inside a black hole. Then there’ll be another bang and we’ll return....”

“I have loved you all my life,” I whisper. “See you after the next bang.”

~ Lily King, Heart the Lover

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

She didn’t want Lee Turner to kiss her, or marry her, or fall in love with her. She wanted him to sit beside her on this porch and watch the stars with her for as long as she was still alive. She wanted to exist beside him, to be real and whole in someone else’s eyes, to bare her soul to someone and have them stay beside her anyway.

~ Kylie Lee Baker, Japanese Gothic

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Shove that shit down. So deep down it’s out of sight. Don’t spend another moment on it. Make it go from a reality to a memory to a feeling you sometimes get on winter days. Then let that feeling drive you to do somethin’ great.”

~ Madeline Cash, Lost Lambs

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

This happens all the time. People always think the third margarita is a good idea, and they’re always wrong.

~ Elin Hildebrand, The Five-Star Weekend

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

I told her I had not unpacked my swim trunks, as I had just arrived.

“Oh, go without,” she said, waving away my worries. “It’s more satisfying to swim in the nude. Are you concerned about this old lady seeing something? Don’t concern yourself. I am completely blind!”

She stepped close to a painting and, with a delicate pinch of her forefinger and thumb, removed a single hair. A brisk smile at me.

She was not blind in the least.

~ Andrew Sean Greer, Villa Coco

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“And it sneaks up on me – this sensation. A sensation of deepest comfort. Here we are, doing small things, nothing really, just talking, watching television. And yet in the nothingness there is a life more real than any wedding or christening or birthday party. In these tiny moments, when the spectacle is stripped away, when there is no reason for the day, what’s left appears to be something true, something fundamental to being a person.”

~ Ben Reeves, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

It strikes me that, with all the cruelties in this world, there is still nothing quite as dangerous as kindness.

~ Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

But no one’s looking at their phones anymore. Not really. It’s like it took the end of the world for people to look up and see each other.

~ T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“I had in my hands the most precious of treasures, a spring from which to drink the knowledge of that world to which I would never have access.”

~ Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

After I’m finished peeing, I stand up straight, close my eyes, organize my thoughts, and click my heels together three times. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. I throw the [outhouse] door open and say, “Shit.”

~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“My entire life’s assignment is to ask questions. Why else are we even here?”

~ Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Because my mother taught me to never discuss sex, politics, or the state of one’s bowels.... And if you don’t stop this, I’ll have to tell you about my constipation.”

~ Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“It was books. I read and read. Went to the library as much as I could. And to bookstores. Lost myself in books. Did you know that books can heal you? They helped restore me.”

~ Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.”

~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Every single game, he told them, every moment of your life, is just putting in the effort so that you can hold on to what you love for as long as you possibly can.

~ Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“I’ve been rethinking my move to Florida,” Viva said to Twilly on the ride to the restaurant.

“You’ve got every right to be discouraged — employers who might be murderers, a married suitor who’s also a crooked politician, and a Hitler-worshipping landlord with his own armed mob of mental defectives.”

“What a ray of sunshine you are.”

“But now you’ve met that special someone,” Twilly said. “Me.”

~ Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

He had lived a sheltered life, but had read enough books to know that flagrantly eccentric characters often served as gatekeepers to danger.

~ Daniel Mason, Country People

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Symbiosis and sustenance and unspeakable beauty and the sudden, savage violence of predation. This is the reef, home to five hundred million. This is the reef as I have known it. This is what I wanted any child of ours to know.

~ EJ Swift, The Coral Bones

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!”

~ Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah