The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Quote of the Day

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

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

“I’ll bathe in his contempt until I’m covered in every drop of his wrath.”

~ Leena Kazak, Between Tides & Thunder

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

“The beginning of a novel is like a first date. You hope that from the first lines an urgent magic will take hold, and you will sink into the story like a hot bath, giving yourself over entirely. But this hope is tempered by the expectation that, in reality, you are about to have to learn a bunch of people’s names and follow along politely like you are attending the baby shower of a woman you hardly know. And that’s fine, goodness knows you've fallen in love with books that didn’t grab you in the first paragraph. But that doesn’t stop you from wishing they would, from wishing they would come right up to you in the dark of your mind and kiss you on the throat.”

~ Rufi Thorpe, Margo’s Got Money Troubles

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

“Keep a place in your heart for things that are beautiful,” Pete would say to her. “Beauty’ll help you get through dark times.”

~ M.L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life

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

“Think about life as a fence,” said Miss Winkle. “And each time we transgress, each time we hurt one another, we must tap a nail into that fence. When we’re ready, we can pull those nails out of the fence. But even still, there will be holes.”

“Can the holes be fixed?” asked Bud. “Can they be patched?”

Miss Winkle shook her head. Bud’s shoulders sunk.

“But it’s alright,” said Miss Winkle. “The fence is still standing. The light can shine through.”

~ Madeline Cash, Lost Lambs

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

We all float through space on a rock, hurtling toward forever. So many of us forget that it’s other people who make life worth living. As much as we like to think so, we can’t do this alone. Everyone needs someone. Maybe not all the time, but enough that it matters.

~ T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright

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

You are right about what you said—we are thirty in our hearts, before all the disappointment, all the ways it turned out to be so much more painful than we thought it would be, but then again, it has also been magic.

~ Virginia Evans, The Correspondent: A Novel

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

Sometimes there was no third book. No resolution no matter how many times you reread or how hard you wished for it.

~ Ilona Andrews, This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

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

If one concentrated on one thing and then another — the good things in each moment — the fear wrapped deep in the gut seemed to unswell, like an iced bruise. Still there, but quieter.

~ Peter Heller, The River

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

“You and me are special,” he started. “There’s no one else I’d rather spend time with than you. There’s no one else I’d rather talk to than you. And there’s no one else I’d rather kiss than you.”

~ Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

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

Ahh, the planet earth. A whole lot of culture. A whole lot of spunk. So many dumbasses.

~ Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

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

We embrace and I think of all the other men and women who must have sat beside this ancient hearth, sharing their good news. The centuries pass but the hope and optimism that accompanies each new family at its beginning is the same. What else is there in life, really, of such significance? This momentary pause in which everything changes.

~ Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

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

Once we’re comfortable with death, we’ll do a better job with our lives.

~ Ann Patchett, Whistler

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

“I’m fucked,” he murmured in Russian. “I am so fucking in love and it’s horrible.”

~ Rachel Reid, The Long Game

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

“Love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril, despite your better sense.”

~ Lily King, Heart the Lover

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

“Books ... are mirrors for the soul. So if you catch a glimpse of someone’s soul, you will know the mirror for them.”

~ Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

Quote of the Day

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

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

~ Frank Herbert, Dune

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

“You want to throw me down. And I, prideful, disdainful, godless, want to drag you into the dirt with me.”

~ Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

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

“You’re supposed to yell fire, though. Because no one comes when you yell rape, didn’t you know that, Bunny?”

~ Mona Awad, Bunny

Quote of the Day

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

What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this.

~ Maggie O’Farrell, Land

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

You keep trying to divide us. Don’t you realize what you’ve created? We have been tempered in the fires of hell, and we are now past the point of being broken. Your downfall has already been written in the stars. You may hurt us. You may kill us all. But it’s not going to matter.

~ Matt Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles
(Dungeon Crawler Carl #8)

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

“I didn’t expect I’d be wishing there was alcohol on this mission as early as Day One, but here we are.”

~ Mason Coile (Andrew Pyper), Exiles

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

“True love doesn’t expire, Raeve. It clings to you like a weight, even when you’re drowning.”

~ Sarah A. Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons

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

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”

~ John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent