Circe

"I am not ashamed of what I am."

"A witch is not born; she becomes."

"I had learned that the world would not protect me, so I protected myself."

"Monsters are no less deserving of redemption than gods."

"I would make myself a life that was my own."

"I learned that even gods can bleed."

"The island gave me what no one else could: solitude and purpose."

"I would not be my father's daughter. I would be myself."

"I have never wanted to be like them. I wanted only to survive them."

"The gift of mortality is the gift of meaning."

"I made myself into something worthy of fear and love both."

"I would not apologize for the things I had learned to do alone."

"The gods made monsters of themselves long before I ever did."

"Pity is a cage dressed as compassion."

"I am the thing that cannot be controlled."

"My magic is in knowing what others refuse to see."

"Even a goddess can choose to be human."

"I would not be erased from my own story."

"I learned to love what others called monstrous."

"The island taught me that I was enough."

"The sea gives and takes, but the island is mine."

"I am not a cautionary tale. I am a choice."

"I learned that loneliness and freedom are often the same thing."

"My daughters would know themselves as I did not."

"Every god I've known wanted to diminish me. I refused."

"I would become a legend not of beauty, but of will."

"Even goddesses can choose mercy."

"I am not ashamed of what I am."

"Power is a mirror."

"I learned that isolation could be a choice, not a punishment."