The Saucy Wenches Book Club

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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

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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