Circe

"My father never looked at me with love. Perhaps that was the root of it all."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I am done being apologetic for my existence"

"I have learned to love what I have created"

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

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

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

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

"I have made peace with my solitude"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I have learned to take what joy I can"

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

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

"I have found power in the telling of truth"

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

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