Megan Barnard > Quotes

“In the end, though, love and fear were not so different. If I could not have one, at least I would have the other.”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“But it did not matter what I had done - it would never matter. Because, after all of it, all that mattered was that I was a woman.”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“Not all men are made to handle war, Bel. Some men who see such suffering… something inside them breaks. They crack open like a seed and eventually wither and rot away.”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“He looked on me, on what I’d done, as one looks on an old woman insisting n the beauty of her youth even as she stands before you a crone. Irrelevant.”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“Kings needed to be ready for blood as quickly as laughter. It was the only way they could survive.”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“He had never loved me. How could you love that which you did not know?”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“I remember the truth of that time. I remember a woman, barely more than a girl who took the comfort she needed.”
― Megan Barnard

“I will do more than love my children. I will give them my name. Jezebel. A name they will be proud of. One they and their children and their children’s children will remember.”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“Will this child...will they...will they subsume me?”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“Ahab would be king eventually. He had no chance of becoming nameless. He did not have to fight to make his mark on the land. From the moment of his birth until the day of his death he would be remembered. His name would be recorded in the book of kings even if he was a drunkard king who did nothing but sleep with his concubines and throw dice.”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel