Circe

"I chose compassion over vengeance"

"I understood at last what I was meant to be"

"My island became my kingdom"

"I refused to be diminished"

"Loneliness and freedom are often the same"

"I learned to love the work of my hands"

"My voice had power I never knew"

"I would transform myself completely"

"Hope is what mortals have that we lack"

"I made myself indispensable"

"I was not beautiful in the way they wanted"

"Mortals understand something we do not"

"I learned that wisdom comes from suffering"

"I would not be pitied"

"Art was my salvation"

"My mother never loved me"

"I was afraid, but I did it anyway"

"Beauty is a weapon the gods wield"

"I chose my own fate"

"Power is not given, it is taken"

"I learned the names of every herb"

"Isolation is a gift"

"I was not made for that world"

"My father had always been vain"

"I had no name. I was a daughter, a granddaughter, a sister"

"Mortals are such fragile things"

"I learned that I could be alone and not perish"

"What is a god's attention but a curse?"

"I am not afraid"

"I chose myself, and in that choice found everything"