Ariadne

Book by Jennifer Saint · 11 quotes · Greek Mythology, Ariadne, Metaphor

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“And so Asterion became the Minotaur. My mother's private constellation of shame intermingled with love and despair no longer; instead, he became my father's display of dominance to the world.”

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“Asterion,' she told me. 'It means star.' 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. I did not know then what he would become. But my mother held him and nursed him and named him and he knew us both. He was not yet the Minotaur. He was just a baby. He was my brother.”

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“I could feel the weight of it pressing down upon me like the heavy sky that Atlas bears upon his mighty shoulders.”

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“What the god's liked was ferocity, savagery, the snarl and the bite and the fear. Always, always the fear, the naked edge of it behind the smoke rising from the altars, the high note of it in the muttered prayers and praise we sent heavenward.”

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“My father had wanted me here for a reason. I'd come here to discover what I could take, how my blood could benefit me at last. But of course, he had his own intentions and it didn't seem he was going to reveal them until he was satisfied that I was really his daughter, that I would prove useful to him...I'd never met anyone related to me before. It'd crossed my mind that maybe there would be some kind of pull, but I felt nothing ...”

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“She did not raise her eyes from the ground, she did not open her mouth to speak. She was no Medusa, wearing her agony in screaming serpents that uncoiled furiously from her head. Instead, she withdrew to an unreachable corner of her soul.”

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“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.”

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“A divine vengeance on us all.”

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“Our fear. That was how the god's grew great.”

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“A precarious position for a human to be in. Gods might enjoy mortal skill in hunting or music or weaving, but they were always alert to hubris-- and woe betide a human whose skills came close to those of the divine. Something that immortals could not tolerate was to be inferior to anyone in any respect.”

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“the world was on fire, and theseus was a shaded green pool.”

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