Top 150 Jennifer Saint Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I wondered how many of them had wives waiting for them, mothers and daughters perhaps. What would those women think if they could see their menfolk, as they stood guard over us, the weeping, grieving survivors of Troy?”

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52. “I didn’t know much about men; between Minos, the Minotaur and now Cinyras, I hadn’t wanted to learn. Or so I thought, until I caught the gaze of a handsome hostage and on the strength of that glance, let the fire he ignited within me burn down everything I knew.”

— Jennifer Saint

53. “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.”

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54. “The world beyond was such an alien place; I was learning every day how different it was. And maybe I was different, too.”

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55. “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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56. “No one intervened to try to stop me from becoming what I became.”

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57. “While I was thankful to Orpheus for protecting us from the lure of their song, I wished there was a way I could have seen them more closely. I felt drawn toward them by something other than their magic. It was their rage, I thought, the anger for their stolen girl that made them punish every man they saw.”

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58. “I stayed silent. I realised that when I had seen all those suitors clamour in the hall for Helen, I had believed they were there because they loved her, but I had been wrong. 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.”

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59. “To what end did I teach them to weave or dance or sing? How did I know I did not raise another child for slaughter?”

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60. “When I was a child, I trusted the gods.”

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61. “How they would exult in my disgrace. A fallen woman is the sweetest entertainment they know;.”

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62. “Can you blame me for thinking it better to garner the love of a thousand mortals instead; to hold the adoration of a city instead of one consort’s frail, mortal flesh?”

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63. “Because if I had learned anything, I had learned enough to know that a god in pain is dangerous.”

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64. “They are the cause of their own suffering, and yet they will never see it. They will rage against the gods all day long, and pray to them and plead for their mercy in the darkness of night.”

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65. “You do not even know what your own husband is.”

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66. “I had felt the grip of his immortal hands on me. I had felt the burn of his venom in my mouth. The memory of it flowed in my bloodstream; the echo of his touch imprinted on my skin; the visions he had given me flickered and twisted in my head, all of them fighting for supremacy, never settling into one clear picture.”

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67. “I wondered if it was worth it, to defy every law that governed us and lie with a god in a golden bed.”

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68. “My mother’s private constellation of shame intermingled with love and despair no longer.”

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69. “Feeling like the last two people in the world was thrilling; feeling like the only one was terrifying.”

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70. “You told me once that one lifetime of human love was worth the loss.”

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71. “Why mortals bloomed like flowers and crumbled to nothing? Why their absence left a gnawing ache, a hollow void that could never be filled? And how everything they once were, the spark within them, could be extinguished so completely yet the world did not collapse under the weight of so much pain and grief.”

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72. “Such a man speaks poetry in place of facts and thinks he tells a higher truth when all he spins is fantasy.”

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73. “Every day, for months now, I have dreamed of running away with Hippolytus. 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.”

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74. “I had seen the depravity of simple thieves and bandits, I had never imagined the scale of a king’s cruelty when he has endless wealth and unchecked power to indulge his most crazed and filthy fantasies of revenge and torture.”

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75. “Jason thought the world was built for heroes. I knew we had to build it ourselves.”

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

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77. “If the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man’s actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes, and the world would shrink from me instead.”

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78. “A precarious position for a human to be in. Gods might enjoy mortal skill in hunting or music or weaving, but they were always alert to hubris – and woe betide a human whose skills came close to those of the divine. Something that immortals could not tolerate was to be inferior to anyone in any respect.”

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79. “I thought that our love was of far more worth to him than the adoration of a thousand frenzied adherents to his cult. I still believed it to be so. But for the first time, I wondered if it truly was enough to satisfy a god.”

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80. “A storm of sobs rose up in my throat, and I wanted to cling to him like barnacles to a rock. “You.”

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81. “I would wear that coronet of snakes and the world would shrink from me instead.”

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82. “She had sacrificed everything she knew for a love as ephemeral and transient as the rainbows that glimmered through the sea spray.”

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83. “The pampered gods of Mount Olympus shrink from the darkness of Hades’ realm... None of them, accustomed as they are to drinking nectar and feasting on ambrosia upon their couches, wreathed in golden purity and all the luxury of their world, would think to walk those dim, dank tunnels sloping ever deeper underground, full of crawling insects and slithering worms and scuttling creatures. But I was not like them and I did not fear the dark.”

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84. “Every word I speak is unwelcome. My throat is raw from the words that are torn from me when I touch someone, when I look into their eyes and see the blinding white truth.”

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85. “Was this my punishment? To live the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?”

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86. “There were many such stories. It seemed the night skies were littered with mortals who had encountered the gods and now stood as blazing examples of what the immortals could do.”

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87. “I would have to admit that somewhere within me something else was stirring – something akin to fear but electric with vitality.”

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88. “I was a fitting wife for a legendary hero and I would prove it.”

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89. “I had given Theseus the clue to the Labyrinth, fourteen lives of Athens, and the death of my own brother. In exchange, he granted me perhaps a week to live in exile, imprisoned on a desolate island.”

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90. “I only hope that wherever we might go, as far away from here as it can be, that we go there together.”

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91. “He was that impossibly rare thing – a man who was exactly who he presented himself to be.”

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92. “She was old enough to be married, but still young enough to believe I could solve any problem.”

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93. “If Dionysus came to punish me, there was nothing I could do. I could die whimpering or I could face my fate with the courage of all those women before me.”

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94. “The bridges were burned behind me and I could not make my way back across the ashes any more than I could walk on the trail of moonlight cast across the water.”

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95. “People remember what they want. They’ll lap up the tales of the Argo and be all too happy to forget you were ever there. If you’re living in obscurity, hunting in this forest, all that will be left will be rumors. No one will know who you were or what you did.”

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96. “I was a child and drawn to the frail spark of tenderness in the room.”

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97. “Please do not ask me more of her situation at present, for I cannot tell you more. The Fates have plans for your sister, and it is not for me to divert her destiny and bring her to you.”

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98. “And back then, I did not know how wings could melt and peel away from your body; how someone could plunge so unexpectedly from their soaring ascent to freedom and be swallowed by the ravenous waves below.”

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99. “I wonder if the heroes the bards sang of that evening knew before they triumphed what they would become. In those crucial moments when a fateful decision was made, did they feel the air brighten with the zing of destiny? Or did they blunder on, not realising the pivotal moment in which destiny swung and the fates were forged?”

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100. “The gods demand their justice, but we suffer for it every time.”

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