Top 150 Jennifer Saint Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”

— Jennifer Saint

2. “He pushed me against the wall, and I didn’t care that the harsh stone scraped my skin. His kisses were urgent, not soft like they had been by the rocks. I felt like he was branding me.”

— Jennifer Saint

3. “Why did I, Phaedra of Knossos and Athens, put my faith in a man?”

— Jennifer Saint

4. “It was the women, always the women, be they helpless serving girls or princesses, who paid the price.”

— Jennifer Saint

5. “I flare into life as Helios leads his chariot down below the horizon, the glimmering jewel in the centre of the crown.”

— Jennifer Saint

6. “The stories of Perseus did not allow for a Medusa with a story of her own.”

— Jennifer Saint

7. “The oracle warned that I would lose myself, but the opposite is true. I am more myself than I have ever been. I am wild, I am free. I am Atalanta.”

— Jennifer Saint

8. “He was not yet the Minotaur. He was just a baby. He was my brother.”

— Jennifer Saint

9. “I had been a fool to trust in a hero: a man who could only love the mighty echo of his own name throughout the centuries.”

— Jennifer Saint

10. “Asterion. A distant light in an infinity of darkness. A raging fire if you came too close. A guide that would lead my family on the path to immortality. A divine vengeance upon us all.”

— Jennifer Saint

11. “Over the mountains, the orange flame of the sun was sinking. Helios drove his mighty chariot beyond the horizon, leaving the world to darkness.”

— Jennifer Saint

12. “And what possible use could my father, King Minos of Crete, ever have for a treacherous daughter?”

— Jennifer Saint

13. “They hated her. They hated her because she was so beautiful and because she made them want her so much. Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour.”

— Jennifer Saint

14. “You have always known this,” I reminded him. “You told me once that one lifetime of human love was worth the loss.” “I was a fool,” he said.”

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15. “You have five sons and a wife on Naxos,” I said. “We all grow older, day by day. You know this and yet you leave us, time after time. Why do you seek the love of the world when you have us only for our brief lifetimes? Why must you seek to force a city into submission while your sons’ childhoods drift into dust, nothing but memories that you cast aside?”

— Jennifer Saint

16. “It was a miracle – only miracles, surely, should not be so terrifying? Maybe they were; maybe coming up this close to true magic, before your own eyes, would be enough to rip the veil of sanity from anyone’s mind and leave the stark, staring chaos of madness behind.”

— Jennifer Saint

17. “What was the loss of a parent compared to that of a daughter? I didn’t want him here, comparing his grief to mine.”

— Jennifer Saint

18. “I watched as the little figure of Icarus swooped up in one final mighty arc before he plunged abruptly like a stone into the cold ocean far below, a stream of feathers spiralling loose in the air behind him. The waves closed over his head in a moment and he was gone.”

— Jennifer Saint

19. “I lost myself in the frenzy of creation, hours gone in the blink of an eye as the shuttle flew back and forth beneath my hands. When the tapestry was done, I beheld it with a fierce kind of pride. It was not full of dutiful scenes of praise to the gods. It was something else entirely.”

— Jennifer Saint

20. “If I could descend to the Underworld swiftly and painlessly, then I would. I would gulp at the waters of the Lethe and let their soporific streams wash away every memory I possess. But I cannot.”

— Jennifer Saint

21. “The price we paid for the resentment, the lust and the greed of arrogant men was our pain, shining and bright like the blade of a newly honed knife.”

— Jennifer Saint

22. “His words were not planned or deliberated over. He did not seek to impress me with embroidered and embellished tales. They were quite enough on their own.”

— Jennifer Saint

23. “Mortals may age, but the gods are prisoners of their own infantile whimsies, never capable of change and never knowing what it is to love because they dare not risk the suffering of loss.”

— Jennifer Saint

24. “I turned my face to the twilight sky and sought out the constellations that the gods had etched across its great bowl, the shapes of mortals they had toyed with, picked out in pretty lights. I would not think. I danced instead.”

— Jennifer Saint

25. “Every woman alive knows that the journey through birth is a voyage between life and death, for her and the infant alike.”

— Jennifer Saint

26. “I’ve been fighting every day of my life. I don’t want to tussle with enemies anymore; I don’t want to face pain and suffering and death. I am tired of battles. When your ship came to Colchis, I saw another life. A man not like my father, not a cruel tyrant, not a sadistic torturer. A man who can give me a home and children, a life without fear.”

— Jennifer Saint

27. “My thoughts are slow and ponderous now, rumbling deep in the heart of eternity, but I see the whole of life beneath me.”

— Jennifer Saint

28. “All mortals live and die by the threads they spin – and each mortal shall die when they cut that thread.”

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29. “I truly had the gift of prophecy, breathed into my mouth by Apollo himself. But no one would ever believe another word I said.”

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30. “Minos had always spoken of the marriage I would make one day, a glorious union that would heap honor upon Crete. He should not have boasted. The creeping realization chilled my bones. How could I defend myself against his wrongdoing? If the gods were offended by him and struck down his wife, then why not his daughter?”

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31. “Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour.”

— Jennifer Saint

32. “I was simply so tired. I felt like I no longer knew who I was. The competent queen who had juggled the needs of the city so expertly was now a slave to the relentless wailing from the crib.”

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33. “She did not raise her eyes from the ground, she did not open her mouth to speak. She was no Medusa, wearing her agony in screaming serpents that uncoiled furiously from her head. Instead, she withdrew to an unreachable corner of her soul.”

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34. “Her eyes locked on to mine. I had thought they would be green, like the cold reptilian flesh that wriggled from her scalp. But they were blue: a cloudless sky, a calm ocean. An ever-replenishing well of sorrow; a sapphire melancholy of surprising gentleness.”

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35. “I would be Medusa, if it came to it, I resolved.”

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36. “A hero would not shrink from his destiny, he would not sneak from his dungeon and flee the fight. His name wouldn’t ring through the ages for that.”

— Jennifer Saint

37. “Tears would be useless, an insult to a suffering deeper than the farthest abyss of the ocean.”

— Jennifer Saint

38. “No longer was my world one of brave heroes; I was learning all too swiftly the women’s pain that throbbed unspoken through the tales of their feats.”

— Jennifer Saint

39. “I could feel the weight of it pressing down upon me like the heavy sky that Atlas bears upon his mighty shoulders.”

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40. “When I could escape the tedium of my baby and seize a respite, I might take a walk by the city walls, wondering if I could muster the energy to fling myself from their height onto the rocky slopes below.”

— Jennifer Saint

41. “Men who thought the world belonged to them, who imagined I was just another trophy that they could win.”

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42. “Just as you will never lose me, you will never lose your crown. Your coronet will guide sailors to safety through the labyrinth of the treacherous seas. Women will look to it for a sign of comfort, a light in the darkness. Children will whisper their wishes to it before they close their eyes to dream. It will stay there, fast and true, for all time.”

— Jennifer Saint

43. “Why did I, Phaedra of Knossos and Athens, put my faith in a man? When I should have seen that what I truly wanted was simply to run away.”

— Jennifer Saint

44. “How two such very different branches could spring from the same tree is a mystery to me. Your sweet goodness is anathema to every aspect of her.”

— Jennifer Saint

45. “Being a god and loving mortals means nothing more than watching them die. I know that all too well. Everytime I see my children learn a new skill, acquire a new word, take another step away from us, I see their shadow drifting in Hades’ halls years from now, beyond my reach. You as well, one day nothing but smoke and ashes.”

— Jennifer Saint

46. “Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me make it slow.”

— Jennifer Saint

47. “I danced, and the slow, simmering anger boiled to rage in my veins, propelling me onward, until I dropped in the dead center of the floor, hopelessly entangled in scarlet skeins, panting for breath and waiting for the heavy clouds that fogged my brain and my vision to clear.”

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48. “Daedalus took comfort in the baby Icarus, and I loved to see him walking about with the infant dandled in his arms, showing the oblivious child the flowers and the birds and the many wonders of the palace.”

— Jennifer Saint

49. “Often, they would say that at the very moment Agamemnon raised the knife, Artemis took pity on Iphigenia and swapped her for a deer. In this version of the story, my daughter lives on as a priestess and favourite of the goddess on an island somewhere. Crucially, in this telling, Agamemnon did nothing more than slaughter a simple animal. It’s poetic and pretty, and so very clean.”

— Jennifer Saint

50. “The gods would take what they wanted, whenever they wanted it.”

— Jennifer Saint