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101 " When I could escape the tedium of my baby and seize a respite, I might take a walk by the city walls, wondering if I could muster the energy to fling myself from their height onto the rocky slopes below. "
― Jennifer Saint , Ariadne
102 " In the pit of the night, the blackness engulfing me would stretch to the very ends of eternity. I would hear the clattering of hooves and the huffing of breath through the bull’s snout and I would claw at the covers, desperately trying to bury myself and holding my breath until stars exploded against my tightly closed eyelids and I had to gasp for air, terrified of what I would see when I surfaced. "
103 " I was simply so tired. I felt like I no longer knew who I was. The competent queen who had juggled the needs of the city so expertly was now a slave to the relentless wailing from the crib. "
104 " Her eyes locked on to mine. I had thought they would be green, like the cold reptilian flesh that wriggled from her scalp. But they were blue: a cloudless sky, a calm ocean. An ever-replenishing well of sorrow; a sapphire melancholy of surprising gentleness. "
105 " I watched as the little figure of Icarus swooped up in one final mighty arc before he plunged abruptly like a stone into the cold ocean far below, a stream of feathers spiralling loose in the air behind him. The waves closed over his head in a moment and he was gone. "
106 " I knew it was a king's duty to hold up the sky for his citizens, to prevent them from being crushed beneath it, no matter how much his back may buckle or his muscles scream for mercy. "
107 " And now he wanted me to pretend it was all his doing; another story to build his legend. "
108 " Being a god and loving mortals means nothing more than watching them die. "
109 " When I was a child, I trusted the gods. "
110 " 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 mans actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes and the world would shrink from me instead. "
111 " Tears would be useless, an insult to a suffering deeper than the farthest abyss of the ocean. "
112 " then he might choose to submerge his passion in the icy waters where the followers of Artemis bathed alone, and try to soothe its burning flames. "
113 " but I foamed with anger for Minos as well and even for Poseidon – these men, these gods who toyed with our lives and cast us aside when we had been of use to them, who laughed at our suffering or forgot our existence altogether. "
114 " The gods demand their justice, but we suffer for it every time. "
― Jennifer Saint , Elektra