Circe

"Love and power are not so different."

"I crafted my own destiny with these hands."

"Exile became my greatest gift."

"Magic asks only that you listen."

"I would not change myself to suit anyone."

"Loneliness is a choice I made."

"The world will always underestimate me."

"I learned that I had a gift for witchcraft, and I used it."

"I am not sorry for what I am."

"Power without humanity is just cruelty."

"I took what was given and made it my own."

"The greatest magic was knowing who I was."

"I am not a god, but neither am I merely mortal."

"My island taught me that solitude could be freedom."

"Love is a choice, and I chose myself first."

"I found myself in the space between what I was and what I chose to become."

"The craft I made was better than the nature they gave me."

"My exile was my salvation."

"I had become something they could not control."

"I did not pray for rescue; I rescued myself."

"My hands held more power than all their divine decrees."

"I learned that being alone was not the same as being powerless."

"What is a woman when she has been taken from everything?"

"I would make my own fate, not wait for theirs."

"The gods know nothing of mercy because they do not have to."

"I did not fear my own darkness; I made it my tool."

"My power had always come from myself."

"I was not born for the roles they had chosen for me."

"Loneliness is a disease of the gods."

"I had learned something in those years of exile: I could survive alone."