Jennifer Saint > Quotes

“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“I would be Medusa, if it came to it, I resolved. 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.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“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.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“I had been a fool to trust in a hero: a man who could only love the mighty echo of his own name throughout the centuries.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“You told me once that one lifetime of human love was worth the loss.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“I danced for the end of everything I knew and the beginning of everything I did not.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“It was the women, always the women, be they helpless serving girls or princesses, who paid the price.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“The stories of Perseus did not allow for a Medusa with a story of her own.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Mortals may age, but the gods are prisoners of their own infantile whimsies, never capable of change and never knowing what it is to love because they dare not risk the suffering of loss.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“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.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“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”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

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

“No longer was my world one of brave heroes; I was learning all too swiftly the women's pain that throbbed unspoken through the tales of their feats.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“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?”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“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.”
― Jennifer Saint, Elektra

“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.”
― Jennifer Saint, Elektra

“Asterion. A distant light in an infinity of darkness. A raging fire if you came too close. A guide that would lead my family on the path to immortality. A divine vengeance upon us all.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“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.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Can’t you see that it just goes on, over and over? The gods demand their justice, but we suffer for it, every time.”
― Jennifer Saint, Elektra

“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, Ariadne

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

“The oracle warned that I would lose myself, but the opposite is true. I am more myself than I have ever been. I am wild, I am free. I am Atalanta.”
― Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

“I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“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.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“My thoughts are slow and ponderous now, rumbling deep in the heart of eternity, but I see the whole of life beneath me.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Jason thought the world was built for heroes. I knew we had to build it ourselves.”
― Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

“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, Ariadne

“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.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

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

“What was the loss of a parent compared to that of a daughter? I didn’t want him here, comparing his grief to mine.”
― Jennifer Saint, Elektra