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“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“You like me, Josie Moraine. You just don't know it yet.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“There was no ‘Miss Woodley.’ There was Willie. Willie was about life, and she grabbed it by the balls. Y’all know that. She loved a stiff drink, a stiff hundred, and she loved her business. And she didn’t judge nobody. She loved everyone equal—accountants, queers, musicians, she welcomed us all, said we were all idiots just the same.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“This town will eat you up if you’re not careful. But I won’t be here forever.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“You got to get outta here, Josie. New Orleans is fine for some people, real good for a few. But not for you. Too much baggage that’ll pull you down. You got dreams and the potential to make ’em real.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Krasivaya. It means beautiful, but with strength. Unique.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray