Top 150 Jennifer Saint Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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?”

— Jennifer Saint

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

— Jennifer Saint

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

— Jennifer Saint

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

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

— Jennifer Saint

106. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

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

— Jennifer Saint

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

— Jennifer Saint

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

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

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111. “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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112. “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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113. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

114. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

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

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116. “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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117. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

118. “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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119. “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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120. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

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

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

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

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “I was a child and drawn to the frail spark of tenderness in the room.”

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130. “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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131. “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?”

— Jennifer Saint

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

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133. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

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

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135. “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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136. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

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

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138. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

139. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

140. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

141. “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.”

— Jennifer Saint

142. “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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143. “A divine vengeance on us all.”

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

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145. “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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146. “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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147. “What does love have to do with reason?”

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148. “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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149. “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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150. “And now he wanted me to pretend it was all his doing; another story to build his legend.”

— Jennifer Saint