Top 160 Jennifer Saint Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “But the main thing I wanted was to live untouched by men. I wasn’t going to find myself in my mother’s position if I could help it.”

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

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106. “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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107. “And while he gazes at her, captivated, in the falling dusk, she makes her own silent vow. She will be his wife, the Queen of Heaven, and she will use every resource she has at her disposal to bring him down.”

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of who she was, find a sweetness in love again, and, for the first time, belong to the world rather than commanding it.”

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

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115. “Sometimes the true power is in the shadows. Someone who stays out of the light, and watches others shrivel and burn in its glare.”

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116. “They could sense the promise within her: I could tear the world down, burn it to ashes, and make you long for more.”

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

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118. “I despised my father, of course I did. The thought of presenting myself to him, of him thinking that my deeds could reflect on him was repulsive, that he thought what I would do would be a substitute for the son he’d never had, that he imagined that I would go back and take that place. I flung the thin woolen blankets aside, thinking I would set out into the darkness, out run my anger until I was gasping and breathless. But somehow, my feet took me to Parthenopaeus...”

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119. “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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120. “More than anything, I knew that I did not want to be drawn into that circle, that I did not want to take my place amongst them and forget who I was.”

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121. “That look stamped across her face – part excitement, part dread. The way she was unable to take another step, so uncertain and exhilarated all at once. She was luminous with it.”

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122. “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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123. “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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124. “Hera didn’t escape her father only to find herself in her mother’s role.”

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125. “A world under the rule of benevolent goddesses, instead of power-hungry gods.”

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “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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130. “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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131. “What does love have to do with reason?”

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132. “Her immortal life has split into two. If she moves – if she stands up and walks away from this cove – then she will be in the new part of it. The part that is after. So she stays where she is, as though she can conjure back the before. Gods can do so many things. They can manipulate the weather, take on any shape they choose, change the landscape. But they cannot change to flow of time. She can’t go back.”

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133. “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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134. “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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135. “It was me who suggested it. Her voice was low. Me who asked the women how we could ever go back to our lives, shoulder to shoulder with those men, knowing what they were capable of doing. We couldn’t break bread with them, let them into our beds, bear their children, not now that we knew the monsters that dwelled behind their human faces.”

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

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138. “I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all.”

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

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

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142. “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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143. “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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144. “It can be dangerous, though, to let a son grow up with vengeance in his heart.”

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145. “But the world has been divided up, and she isn’t sure which realm she can have for herself. The only one offered to her is wifehood, and she doesn’t want it.”

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146. “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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147. “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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148. “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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149. “And now he wanted me to pretend it was all his doing; another story to build his legend.”

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150. “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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