Hera Quotes

“Sometimes the true power is in the shadows. Someone who stays out of the light, and watches others shrivel and burn in its glare.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“Hera didn’t escape her father only to find herself in her mother’s role.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“When Athens loses its hold on its empire, Hera still sees Athena: a grey-feathered owl tilting its head in the town square where men debate philosophy and rationality, striving for sense and understanding; or else a flash of silver in the eyes of someone stacking another roll of papyrus in the public library, the teacher calling his students to lessons, or the woman demonstrating how the loom works to her attentive daughter. At the lush, rolling vineyards, she sometimes thinks she spots the laughing eyes of Dionysus in a jovial winemaker selling his wares. In the forests, she's convinced she catches a flash of Artemis, running in pursuit of a stag, or else she recognises her determined jawline in a defiant girl. In smoky forges, where blacksmiths wipe the sweat from their brows, she feels the patience of Hephaestus; and she is certain that Ares still runs wild on the battlefields, filling every fighter's heart with his destructive rage. Hestia is there, of course, in every kindly friend, at every welcoming hearth.
She wonders where they see her - in rebellious wives, she hopes, in the iron souls of powerful queens, in resilient girls who find the strength to keep going.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“She wonders where they see her - in rebellious wives, she hopes, in the iron souls of powerful queens, in resilient girls who find the strength to keep going.
Even when they no longer worship at her altars, she won’t disappear. The mortals that determine their own lives, and she will carry on. Immortal and ageless, reinvented a thousand times, remade for a thousand narratives, throneless and wandering, but forever the ruler of her own destiny.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“Hera thinks of the maternal line: Gaia, Rhea and now Hera. The goddess who created the world, the goddess who nurtured it and the goddess who will protect it. But stronger than that line is its dark twin: Ouranos, Cronus and Zeus, who only care for what they can take.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of who she was, find a sweetness in love again, and, for the first time, belong to the world rather than commanding it.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“But the world has been divided up, and she isn’t sure which realm she can have for herself. The only one offered to her is wifehood, and she doesn’t want it.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“She could live forever like this, in a world that never has to change.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“Her immortal life has split into two. If she moves - if she stands up and walks away from this cove - then she will be in the new part of it. The part that is after. So she stays where she is, as though she can conjure back the before. Gods can do so many things. They can manipulate the weather, take on any shape they choose, change the landscape. But they cannot change to flow of time. She can’t go back.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“A reminder, now and always, that no matter who she was before, in the eyes of the world, she is only his wife.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“And while he gazes at her, captivated, in the falling dusk, she makes her own silent vow. She will be his wife, the Queen of Heaven, and she will use every resource she has at her disposal to bring him down.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“A world under the rule of benevolent goddesses, instead of power-hungry gods.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“They could sense the promise within her: I could tear the world down, burn it to ashes, and make you long for more.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“She has been alone for a very long time.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“Everything has to change. Even gods”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“But for a moment, the world is held still on the cusp of a new day and Eos, mother of stars and winds, laughs as her sons wreathe around her, their caresses lifting her hair and fluttering across her face in a scatter of gentle kisses.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“Her immortal life has split into two. If she moves – if she stands up and walks away from this cove – then she will be in the new part of it. The part that is after.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong.
There is nothing that Hera, the warrior who felled the Titans, can do to save herself.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“And now it’s all in the open, [Hera] doesn’t care if she joins Prometheus on his lonely crag. Send the eagle to devour her liver, she thinks, let all her pain be on display. Let it be on the outside, instead of consuming her from within.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“Tethys is usually so gentle that Hera sometimes forgets her streams have carved their way through solid rock.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera