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

“I am not the negligible woman he believes me to be... I will make this royal family fear me, just as the daughters of Pelias do. Just as my own family do. My enemies shudder when they hear my name. Now Jason is my enemy, he will do the same”
― 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 I – who allowed his estimation of my worth to dictate my own – I will make him regret his treatment of me.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend To This House

“People would say I killed him... When they grew tired of saying that, they said I tore his body to pieces and threw each part into the sea.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend to This House

“What kind of woman, the Colchians would ask, ends her life over love for a stranger? ... would they conclude that I had been cursed by a goddess, or would they just pour contempt over my cooling corpse?”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend to This House

“The girl [Medea] was not just skilful and clever but was also devout: she spent her days in service to Hecate.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend to This House

“She [Aphrodie] could destroy a man or incapacitate a god using
nothing but their own desires, which were hers to control.”
― Natalie Haynes, No Friend to This House

“Some men are born to be a favourite of the gods. Or at least to seem so,
for a while.”
― 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