Marina

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

“Para mais essa experiência, a da vida, foi sempre para mim demasiado difícil. Nunca me habituei a ela e isso é estranho porque todas as pessoas a consideram uma coisa simples e natural, a mais natural e mais simples de todas quantas existem. Eu sempre fiz cerimónia e não procedi por isso como devia, como procediam as outras pessoas, mesmo as mais broncas e rudes, com à vontade.”
― Maria Judite de Carvalho, Tanta Gente, Mariana

“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

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi