Top 150 Jennifer Saint Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Jason thought the world was built for heroes. I knew we had to build it ourselves.”

— Jennifer Saint

102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “I was a fitting wife for a legendary hero and I would prove it.”

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

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113. “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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114. “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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115. “I was a child and drawn to the frail spark of tenderness in the room.”

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116. “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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117. “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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118. “The gods demand their justice, but we suffer for it every time.”

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119. “What the gods liked was ferocity, savagery, the snarl and the bite and the fear. Always, always the fear, the naked edge of it behind the smoke rising from the altars, the high note of it in the muttered prayers and praise we sent heavenward, the deep, primal taste of it when we raised the knife above the sacrificial offering. Our fear. That was how the gods grew great.”

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120. “Hippolytus had brought to me a burst of clarity – the gift to see my life for what it truly was.”

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121. “I remembered how much I had admired Hypsipyle’s strength and courage in fighting to claim the city as her own, but then she had offered it up to Jason. Medea had the power to charm monsters and heal mortal injuries, magic that lay the world at her feet, and yet she tried to shrink herself down to a life at his side. I wasn’t going to do that.”

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122. “I felt a yearning all at once for something I couldn’t name. So much was happening – weddings and war – and none of it involved me.”

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123. “I had fallen asleep in his arms and woken to cold ashes, a desolate dawn.”

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124. “If you had anything that made you proud, that elevated you above your mortal fellows, it seemed to me that the gods would find delight in smashing it to smithereens.”

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125. “I slept that night with a sense of calm in my heart, and the next morning I decided that I would walk down to the beach. The ocean had always been a friend to me, back on Crete. The sight of it would always soothe my soul.”

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126. “But when I thought of Scylla, I thought of the foolish and all-too-human girl, gasping for breath amid the froth of waves churning in the wake of my father’s boat. I saw her weighed down in the tumultuous water not just by the iron chains in which my father had bound her but also by the terrible truth that 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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127. “Mortals. They are often so stubborn, so determined not to see reason. Everyone should live as easily as we do on Naxos, instead of making these endless traps in which to ensnare themselves. 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 plea for their mercy in the darkness of night. But they will never see how simply they could make their lives better for themselves.”

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128. “Did I feel the cogs of destiny, the gliding of the Fate’s loom, or was it actually just the thumping of my excited heart?”

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129. “A divine vengeance on us all.”

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130. “Somehow, women always came after a death.”

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131. “Now, somewhere over that wide blue sea, Theseus lolled with impunity on royal couches, admired by all for his bravery, his noble and heroic exploits – and like a thousand women before me, I would pay the price of what we had done together.”

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132. “He was that impossibly rare thing – a man who was exactly who he presented himself to be. The wonder of it – I could not help marveling at him.”

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133. “What does love have to do with reason?”

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134. “The sweetness and the love of the nymphs – and Silenus’ jokes and silliness – had made his childhood so unlike that of the other gods, who either sprang fully formed into vicious existence or battled and sliced their way to adulthood.”

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135. “I felt his calm and his assurance roll through my veins like that cold, green water, soothing my rapid pulse with each heavy surge.”

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136. “And now he wanted me to pretend it was all his doing; another story to build his legend.”

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137. “He showed me that he was truly the best of all men, of all gods. It was not just his stories; I had fallen for tales woven in the moonlight before and knew better than to trust a man’s account of himself.”

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138. “The world was bathed in gold as I reached my dancing-floor. The stillness of dawn was breaking to the stirring of life, to the high, fluting notes of the songbirds and the ripple of warmth that promised the heat of the day to come.”

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139. “It did not feel momentous, yet when I tore my eyes away from his I found that nothing looked quite the same, as though the world had fractured and sheared away from itself to reshape in almost – but not quite – the same formation. As though I had looked at a waterfall and realised with a faint jolt that the water flowing over the rock was ever-changing, that it would never be the same water again.”

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140. “And how everything they once were, that 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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141. “In the pit of the night, the blackness engulfing me would stretch to the very ends of eternity. I would hear the clattering of hooves and the huffing of breath through the bull’s snout and I would claw at the covers, desperately trying to bury myself and holding my breath until stars exploded against my tightly closed eyelids and I had to gasp for air, terrified of what I would see when I surfaced.”

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142. “What the god’s liked was ferocity, savagery, the snarl and the bite and the fear. Always, always the fear, the naked edge of it behind the smoke rising from the altars, the high note of it in the muttered prayers and praise we sent heavenward.”

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143. “I could hear in their breathless, excited conversations the echo of two sisters who had loved each other all those years ago on Crete.”

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144. “What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: However blameless the life we lead, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”

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145. “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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146. “I saw her weighed down in the tumultuous water not just by the iron chains in which my father had bound her but also by the terrible truth that 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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147. “You have power and courage, speed and skill far beyond what’s needed in this forest... And you’re better already than any warrior out there. You’re greater than any man laying claim to the name of a hero. The world should know the name Atalanta. They should see what you can do.”

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148. “I took that story with me in the coming days and turned it over, like the stone in a ripe peach: the sudden, unexpected hard shock in the centre of everything.”

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149. “It can be dangerous, though, to let a son grow up with vengeance in his heart.”

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150. “I know that human life shines more brightly because it is but a shimmering candle against an eternity of darkness, and it can be extinguished with the faintest breeze.”

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