The Saucy Wenches Book Club

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

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

But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.

~ Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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

“My brothers have my measure when it comes to fighting and dancing and thinking and reading books, but none of them is half my equal at lying insensible in the mud.”

~ George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

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

“We’re supposed to be partners. But you seem to think everyone in your life is a fucking tool. And either they work or they don’t. Either they do what you want them to, or they’re useless.”

~ Lily Brooks-Dalton, Ruins

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

“But courage and training yourself not to feel are two different things.”

~ Mason Coile (Andrew Pyper), Exiles

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

Nature is waiting for us to learn that we are all bound by the same rules. And to remember that, when the forest breathes out, we breathe in. When the forest thrives, we thrive. When the forest lives, we live.

~ Suzanne Simard, When the Forest Breathes

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

“My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he’s fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we’re taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some [redacted] fishermen. Don’t you wish you were here?” RJ Decker

~ Carl Hiaasen, Double Whammy

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

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”

~ Ursula K. Leguin, The Dispossessed

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

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

~ George Orwell, 1984

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

I knew this was all a construction. But it was so easy to get caught up in the story. So easy to forget who the true enemy was.

~ Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4)

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

I was forbidden to join the protest. We made a placard anyway, Gran let me put it up in her front window. I wanted the slogan I’ll be less activist when you’re less shit. We settled on I’ll do my homework when you do yours.

~ EJ Swift, When There Are Wolves Again

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

All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn’t specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.

~ Callie Hart, Brimstone

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

Everything alive is sentient. To accept this feels not at all like a humiliation of our species, but it is a humbling of sorts. And a precious gift—the kinship of all these sentient others an antidote to our loneliness.

~ Michael Pollan, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

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

... A feeling that something is coming, waiting to be born, out of this time. Almost physical, like before a period, or a pregnancy, or vomiting. Something is getting ready to resolve itself.

~ Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional

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

And yes, I will go into the year as you said: boldly, unapologetically, head up and not taking bullshit from anyone with a penis.

~ Virginia Evans, The Correspondent: A Novel

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

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

~ Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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

Some tendency suppressed and kept within decent bounds in my time had been unleashed and any shame about it so intensely rationalized that it no longer occurred to anyone that the swollen ugliness everywhere was a direct result of the heedless indulgence of some pervasive acquisitive hunger.

If I might say it that way.

Greed , greed, one could taste it in the air.

~ George Saunders, Vigil

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

“None of this happened, Paul,” she says. “You and I never existed. There is no Antimemetics Division.”

~ qntm, Sam Hughes, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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

“Heart eyes. Hayden said I look at you with heart eyes.”

Shane squirmed against his bedsheets. “When did he say that?”

“At camp. I was staring at you and he said—”

“Oh god.” Shane palmed his face. “He did not say that.”

“Yes. Was probably true. I look at you and I am just...” Ilya opened and closed his fist several times in front of his chest. “My heart goes crazy”

~ Rachel Reid, The Long Game

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

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”

~ Lily King, Heart the Lover

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

To watch things fall into place for me might have caused resentment in other fathers. Not James Crowe. Success, he explained in an interview I discovered years later ... was defined by something he learned from his own dad. Did you bring joy to your community? Did you put something back into the world?

~ Cameron Crowe, The Uncool

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

“The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm, while if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.”

~ George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Oh my god, Carl. It’s porn. This is unauthorized derriere porn! The Donut Holes are an unauthorized fan group, and now they have merch! Merch that exploits my backside! Carl, do something!”

“Donut,” I said. “It’s enchanted. He’s wearing it because it helps him. You can’t even see it.”

“How would you like it if someone was wearing a shirt featuring your butthole, Carl?”

“I don’t stick my butthole in everybody’s face when they’re trying to sit down and eat.”

“Well, excuse me for showing affection. I mean really.”

~ Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7)

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“No life is ordinary. No life is without hope, without light, even during the unimaginable.”

~ Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Women have been each other’s sword and shield since the beginning. When men turn against us, we turn to one another.”

~ Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die