The Shadow of Perseus Quotes

“I grieve, but I live too. Bitterness is a consuming fire and I have lost enough already.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“Never is more than we can know. Who can say what the Fates will spin for us? So little of my life has happened as I thought it would.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“They had degraded her, dehumanized her, taken her beauty, her
honor, and her spirit, but she had been reborn, not as a monster of their
making but as a woman free.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“Pain fixes to our hearts too easily. We must remember to fix our joy there too.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“A man is not made by what he claims but what he does.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“They look down because they know they should look up,”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“There was nothing her own hands could do to retrieve it. But even as she mourned for it, she could not give it up. Not in her heart, not yet. She could not pull her body out of its paralysis, could not bring herself to strive for a new life while the deepest part of her still ached for the old.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“There is no glory in slaying the defeated.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“If the Pythia’s words had ordered her torn, it was her father’s hand
that had seen it done. The years had only deepened the wound of that
betrayal. She had her own child now, and soon another. To know how
fiercely she wanted to protect them, to cling to them, to love them, it made
her burn to think that her father had not held that same feeling for her”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus