Stephanie

“But the world has been divided up, and she isn’t sure which realm she can have for herself. The only one offered to her is wifehood, and she doesn’t want it.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“She wonders where they see her - in rebellious wives, she hopes, in the iron souls of powerful queens, in resilient girls who find the strength to keep going.
Even when they no longer worship at her altars, she won’t disappear. The mortals that determine their own lives, and she will carry on. Immortal and ageless, reinvented a thousand times, remade for a thousand narratives, throneless and wandering, but forever the ruler of her own destiny.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of who she was, find a sweetness in love again, and, for the first time, belong to the world rather than commanding it.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“Those bright leaves like fire cupped in my still-shaking hands, jammed into a 45mm shell case — if that wasn’t wartime in a nutshell, I didn't know what was. A stray frond of beauty here and there, jammed into something mass-produced and violent, usually toppled and trampled underfoot before too long. Dead and withered tomorrow, but still glowing with life today.”
― Kate Quinn, The Diamond Eye