Top 150 Jennifer Saint Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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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53. “We would lay down our lives for our children, and every time we faced birth, we stood on the banks of that great river that separated the living from the dead. A massed army of women, facing that perilous passage with no armour to protect us, only our own strength and hope that we would prevail. It didn’t feel like the right conversation to have on the way to her wedding.”

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

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55. “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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56. “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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57. “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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58. “He was that impossibly rare thing – a man who was exactly who he presented himself to be.”

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59. “I danced for the end of everything I knew and the beginning of everything I did not.”

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60. “We might only have a mortal lifetime, but it will belong to us, and no one else.”

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61. “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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62. “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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63. “I held Medusa’s image in my head, calming my deep ragged breaths. Her snakes hissed and spat and contorted about her head, striking fear into the hearts of so-called heroes as they cringed away. I could be the same. My rage would be my shield.”

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64. “I knew it was a king’s duty to hold up the sky for his citizens, to prevent them from being crushed beneath it, no matter how much his back may buckle or his muscles scream for mercy.”

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65. “The gods do not know love, because they cannot imagine an end to anything they enjoy. Their passions do not burn brightly as a mortal’s passions do, because they can have whatever they desire for the rest of eternity. How could they cherish or treasure anything? Nothing to them is more than a passing amusement, and when they have done with it, there will be another.”

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66. “His eyes were soft with amusement and that strange, silver spark leapt from them like the ripples cast by the moon on the dark, briny sea.”

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67. “I couldn’t find enough air to breathe;.”

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68. “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.”

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69. “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.”

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70. “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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71. “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.”

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72. “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.”

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

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74. “The cold green of his eyes. Like the shock of the chill waters when the sea floor drops away unexpectedly beneath your feet and you realise that you have swum out far beyond your depth.”

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75. “Being a god and loving mortals means nothing more than watching them die.”

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76. “To be surprised, you had to have a belief that the world would follow its rhythms and patterns as it had always done.”

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77. “When the stars collapse in on us all and the world is consumed by fire, when everything is reduced to white dust, Hades will still sit and rule his swollen kingdom.”

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78. “A fallen woman is the sweetest entertainment they know; I saw it before, in Crete. I will not let it happen to me.”

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79. “My story would not be one of death and suffering and sacrifice. I would take my own place in the songs that would be sung about Theseus: the princess who saved him and ended the monstrosity that blighted Crete.”

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80. “Where there was evil, he routed it rather than weighed it up to see how he could turn it to his own advantage. Where there was terror and darkness, he vanquished it and flooded the world with searing light.”

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81. “Our fear. That was how the god’s grew great.”

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82. “It would be a convenient route for an inconvenient daughter.”

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83. “I watched the fire spark into the night sky and wondered where she could be. Making her way down that dank, twisting path to the Underworld alone? I had gone everywhere before her; trodden the paths I sent her down to make sure they were safe before I let her go. How could I let her go now, to where I did not know, without me at her side?”

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84. “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.”

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85. “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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86. “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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87. “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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88. “When I was a child, I trusted the gods.”

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

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

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

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92. “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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93. “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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94. “My mother’s private constellation of shame intermingled with love and despair no longer.”

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

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

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97. “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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98. “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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99. “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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100. “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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