No Friend to This House Quotes

“Men were very quick to fear what they didn't control.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend To This House

“[Aphrodite] could destroy a man or incapacitate a god using nothing but their own desires, which were hers to control. Weapons seemed to her a very cumbersome way to go about taking a life, when compared to longing or its bedfellow, despair. No battlefield could be bloodier than hers, and she had never fired so much as a single slender arrow.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend To This House

“Will I speak to you again? I can only say I hope not.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend To This House

“And if Olympus could have held them, Iris had no doubt that the Harpies would have dwelt on its lofty heights beside her. But they were too quick to ever be still, so they called nowhere home.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend To This House

“The words Iphias left unsaid would have moved the sky and parted the sea.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend To This House

“I'm a crow. We don't have murderous kings. We just have...other crows.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend To This House