The Saucy Wenches Book Club

Quote of the Day

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

I am not a snob. I just take books more seriously than other people and am bad at pretending otherwise.

~ Laurie Frankel, Enormous Wings

Quote of the Day

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

So blind we humans are — so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have... But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another’s selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see.

~ Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

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

“Oh God! He said he was DTF...we thought that meant down to finance.”

Tilly lets out a wallop of a laugh. “DTF...girl, that’s the acronym for down to fuck.”

~ Meghan Quinn, Rules for the Summer

Quote of the Day

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

“There comes a point in every marriage when a woman realizes that the man she married is a freak. This is inevitable. It cannot be avoided. The only real question in the matter is what type of freak your husband will be—meaning: if you are lucky, you will find out your husband is preternaturally into vintage children’s train sets, and you will not find out that your husband pays high school cheerleaders for sex. That is the best we homemakers can hope for in this life: a man whose freakishness is not unspeakably violent or technically illegal, and therefore is something we are able to bear.”

~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

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

The ocean was a magician, I saw that now. These waves, their rippling crests and troughs, were an illusory trick, a veneer for everything that existed beneath. I had glimpsed that other world, and the one I had been born into was transformed forever.

~ EJ Swift, The Coral Bones

Quote of the Day

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

It’s just that we’re destroying the planet for real and no one seems to give a shit — and then something bad happens to one of us, a human being, and it’s “earth-shattering”.

~ Eric Puchner, Dream State

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

“You are not replaceable,” he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people.”

~ SenLinYu, Alchemised

Quote of the Day

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

One afternoon, as I lay on my bed wallowing in self-pity, my mom handed me a thick fantasy book, and when I turned my nose up at it, she told me, “Maggie, you need to live in someone else’s head for a bit.”

~ Ilona Andrews, This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

Quote of the Day

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

“It turns out executing a deliberate, convincing distraction is a lot harder than being a distraction accidentally.”

~ Martha Wells, Platform Decay
(The Murderbot Diaries #8)

Quote of the Day

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

Believe the lie — trust the lie — it is the only thing you have. Stay in the cage and paint the walls. If you do not, then you must quit; but if you can delude yourself long enough, then your delusions might very well come true.

~ R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

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

“When your mama is in heaven there is nothing to stop her from loving you – not a man, not a job, not whatever she wanted to be doing but she had kids instead. When the sun shines, you can feel that pure love on you. It tastes like sugarcane.”

~ Tayari Jones, Kin

Quote of the Day

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

“Even at my most fucked up I like to make sense. At least to myself. Don’t you?”

~ Mason Coile (Andrew Pyper), Exiles

Quote of the Day

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

We want women like us. Women who present as scary, but have good hearts. Women who know how to get shit done. Women who, despite our age, share a dirty little secret: we’re just getting started.

~ Maria Semple, Go Gentle

Quote of the Day

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

“One day we’ll see that our perception of being alone in the world was once humankind’s greatest shared delusion.”

~ Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets

Quote of the Day

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

...the immortal words that flowed forth from mission specialist Jack Vo’s mouth as he became the first human to set foot on this new planet were: What the fuck is that?

~ Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Quote of the Day

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

“They will not break me. Fuck them all. They will not break me. But I will break them. This is my promise to myself, to my friends, and to you, anyone who reads these words. I will break them all.” Crawler Carl, 25th Edition of The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook

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

Quote of the Day

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

“Sometimes the story isn’t the one you came to write but the one that finds you instead.”

~ Cameron Crowe, The Uncool

Quote of the Day

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

The grief that must fill the world is incomprehensible. Our small dose felt as large as the sun, didn’t it?

~ Virginia Evans, The Correspondent: A Novel

Quote of the Day

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

She made me feel alive. She made me want to fight to keep living, to not let the monsters and the darkness win, because it was so much better being surrounded by her light. And if her penchant for taser play had taught me anything, she could more than put me in my place if necessary. She was my match, my queen, and I would spend the rest of my life worshipping her like one if she let me.

~ Navessa Allen, Caught Up

Quote of the Day

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

“Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.”

~ Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway

Quote of the Day

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

The varieties of silence are as numerous as those of speech or thought. Or of listening.

~ Ian McEwan, What We Can Know

Quote of the Day

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

... It’s about learning to live in partnership with one another in small communities, and at the same time, working out a sustainable partnership with our environment. It’s about treating education and adaptability as the absolute essentials that they are.

~ Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

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

“Bless your heart,” I said.

“And that means?” Solentine raised his eyebrows.

“Eat dirt and die. I should’ve let Krasta slice up your arm. You’re an insufferable ass.”

~ Ilona Andrews, This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

Quote of the Day

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

From beyond the grave, her mother had told her that women should not be men’s servants. They should stand alongside men as intellectual equals. And yet, somehow, she has found herself in thrall to a man who reduces her. He encourages her to think and read and write, but only in a way that agrees with his thoughts, that doesn’t question his ideas.

~ Caroline Lea, Love, Sex, and Frankenstein

Quote of the Day

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

“I think it’s the only form of hope we have. For our survival, I mean. What good is any other virtue without love?

“In literature love is a weakness. Othello is easily manipulated by Iago because of his love for Desdemona. Anna Karenina throws herself under a train. Othello places his trust in Iago, not Desdemona. Anna Karenina’s society does not allow her to be with Vronsky.

“Love is not the weakness. People get in its way. People are weak and perilous, not love.”

~ Lily King, Heart the Lover