Top 150 Jennifer Saint Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Our fear. That was how the god’s grew great.”

— Jennifer Saint

102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “My mother’s private constellation of shame intermingled with love and despair no longer.”

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

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113. “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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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “I was a fitting wife for a legendary hero and I would prove it.”

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “What does love have to do with reason?”

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

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

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

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

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

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133. “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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134. “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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135. “It can be dangerous, though, to let a son grow up with vengeance in his heart.”

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136. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “And now he wanted me to pretend it was all his doing; another story to build his legend.”

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “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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143. “Feeling like the last two people in the world was thrilling; feeling like the only one was terrifying.”

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

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145. “A divine vengeance on us all.”

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

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147. “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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148. “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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149. “Hippolytus had brought to me a burst of clarity – the gift to see my life for what it truly was.”

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150. “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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