The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Quote of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“For everyone who looks around and sees only darkness, let them watch you burn and light the way”

~ Penn Cole, Burn of the Everflame

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

But she is learning to let others think of her what they will. She is learning to keep secrets. And in the dark soil of her silence, she is gathering bits of knowledge like seed, planting them deep.

~ Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen

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

“They have hollow bones,” Mama explained. “It’s what makes birds so fragile. But it’s also what makes it possible to fly.”

~ Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

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

“I think if you live long enough,” Nico said, “you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learn to navigate as you enter adulthood, and then that world slips away from you by degrees, and after a while there’s nothing left of it, but you’re still here. That’s what I mean.”

~ Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party

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

“You listen to me, young lady. This is your problem! This has always been your problem! You think kindness is some silly frivolous side virtue, when it is in fact the whole damn thing!”

~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

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

This whole floor is a racist political cartoon, telling the universe how shifty the Krakaren and the Plenty are. Borant has been very vocal about this for a while now. They say the Plenty are selling everybody this technology just so everybody will become addicted to it. But one day they will take it all away, and that will, somehow, allow their overlord, the Krakaren, to I don’t know, absorb the entire universe.

~ Matt Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
(Dungeon Crawler Carl #3)

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

“It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived moment to moment, garden to stove to the simple act of flying, I could have peace.”

~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

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

“People shouldn’t have to be afraid, Adam. Of anything. The universe is vast and terrifying and unthinkably dangerous and you deserve to be protected. To be kept safe and sound. Because otherwise those terrible things rule you and fear rules you and you can’t be who you really are. Freedom means no fear.”

~ qntm/Sam Hughes, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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

“Just because Eve gave Adam the apple? The man was probably hungry. The woman was always in charge of organizing the fucking snacks.”

~ Liane Moriarty, Big Little Truths

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

I read, which I suspect is the reason I’m still alive and writing all this down. Only now, after rereading the same thirty or so beat-up paperbacks over and over — what few I could carry into this hole in the wall while I waited for the world to end — do I realize how much I miss it. How much I need the stories. The words.

~ W.H. Chizmar, Them

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

“It is classic human error,” Gloria said, “to disregard what we cannot see. But the continuation of life on this planet, just like its beginning, depends on relationships. No organism can function — or be understood — alone. Everywhere, life tangles.”

~ Chloe Benjamin, Under Story

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

“What kind of kingdom had I woken to, where the privilege to exist was not guaranteed but granted, perhaps by those most unfit to bestow it?”

~ Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

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

“Son, you’ve become a permanent affliction. Like plaque psoriasis, or pubic rot.”

“Mom would raise hell if she heard you talk like that.”

“Her suffering is over, thank God. Mine isn’t.”

~ Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

They came for you, she says. They came and they died. And you don’t know how to feel about that. Or you’re feeling many things right now. All these things that humans love to write poems about. Have you ever listened to a poem? That’s how humans really sing, isn’t it?

~ Paul Yoon, Etna

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Wynn thought that if wolves sang, and coyotes, and elk and birds, and wind, and we, too, it was probably in response to a music we didn’t know we could hear.

~ Peter Heller, The River

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Lionesses. Us. Can’t you just see it Ellie? Someday, you and me — we’ll do great things. We’ll live life for ourselves. And we will help others. We are cubs now, maybe. But we will grow to be lionesses. Strong women who will make things happen.”

~ Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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

“I think he got dicked by the dangling dong of destiny, that’s what I think.”

~ Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Don said, “You never believed in fate.”

Rodney snorted. “No. You and me? We weren’t destined to be. We’re here because we worked for it. We worked hard. We survived some of the worst things people can live through. It’s not fate. It was you and me who did it. No one and nothing else.”

~ T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“You need to be someone worth falling in love with — you teach them how to love you by showing them who you are.”

~ Rufi Thorpe, Margo’s Got Money Troubles

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“People are art,” he said. “It’s enough to just watch the people.”

~ Ann Patchett, Whistler

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

Once, she heard a guy refer to her as “sex on a stick,” and although she actually had no idea what that meant, she understood it to be a superpower.

~ Jenny Jackson, The Shampoo Effect

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

All that matters is that he does care and that he wants Charlie to know it. He never wants Charlie to doubt it. Maybe that’s the trick to relationships — with friends or lovers or colleagues who become something like family.

~ Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

It was the most important day of my life. The day I stopped working on my husband, my farm, my family, and returned to work on an old, beloved project: myself. I walked back inside to make dinner for my family. After dinner, I knocked myself up again.

~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

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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