Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You told me once that one lifetime of human love was worth the loss.”
“I danced for the end of everything I knew and the beginning of everything I did not.”
“It was the women, always the women, be they helpless serving girls or princesses, who paid the price.”
“The stories of Perseus did not allow for a Medusa with a story of her own.”
“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.”
“Because if I had learned anything, I had learned enough to know that a god in pain is dangerous.”
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