Circe

"I am not afraid"

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones"

"I could not make myself feel what I did not"

"I have found power in the telling of truth"

"I am learning that the penalty for not being is often high"

"I would rather be hated for myself than loved for my mask"

"I have learned to take what joy I can"

"I was not born from ocean foam or divine whim. I was made."

"I learned the names of the plants and which would heal"

"I have made my choice. Let it stand."

"Better to reign in my small kingdom than serve in another's"

"My power is not in what men think of me"

"I began to see that I was not the only lonely one"

"They called it witchcraft. I called it survival."

"The gift of prophecy is mostly knowing what no one wants to hear"

"I would have given almost anything to stop being afraid"

"I learned that self-pity is a luxury I could not afford"

"I have made peace with my solitude"

"I am not what they say I am. I am what I choose to be."

"Power is not what is given. It is what you take."

"I have learned that transformation requires both pain and courage"

"I choose my own fate, though it cost me everything"

"I have learned to love what I have created"

"I am done being apologetic for my existence"

"I have made my island a refuge, not a prison"

"I learned that the smallest act of defiance is also magic"

"I choose to believe in my own agency, despite the gods"

"I am Circe. I bow to no one."

"I am not a monster, though I have played one well enough."

"I learned that I was not powerless, merely untrained."