Circe

"I am not ashamed of what I am."

"Even goddesses can choose mercy."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The island taught me that I was enough."

"I learned to love what others called monstrous."

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

"Even a goddess can choose to be human."

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

"I am the thing that cannot be controlled."

"Pity is a cage dressed as compassion."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I learned that even gods can bleed."

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

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

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

"A witch is not born; she becomes."

"I am not ashamed of what I am."

"The herbs know their purposes better than any god."

"I chose my own exile. That made it mine."