Hekate - The Witch Quotes

“It seemed to me that anything unpredictable was named dangerous by gods and men alike. But the word unpredictable seemed reserved for women alone. A woman they cannot control, whether goddess or mortal, is a dangerous woman.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“A woman they cannot control, whether Goddess or mortal, is a dangerous woman.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“A mother's love is many things, but most of all it is ancient, and it is destructive to anything and anyone that stands between her and her child.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“There is no difference between Gods and monsters, child. Each in their own way wields their power to terrorize.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“Is that all aging is? Leaving things you knew and once loved behind to become something brand-new?”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“The Day I Was Born The universe was on fire.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“I was starting to feel as though my entire existence was a threat. Perhaps this was what womanhood was.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“Children born in wars
are made of a different kind of clay.
We become used to the din.
We grow used to the collapse
of crumbling buildings
and fire and develop a compassion
for broken things.
How can we not when we know
nothing else?”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“As she held me in her arms
we watched a silver shower
rain across the midnight sky

behind the blazing fire
of a ten-thousand-year-old war.
She told me the stars fell

because she had granted
a thousand wished in my name.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“A woman they cannot control, whether Goddess or mortal, is a dangerous woman”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“Has someone ever changed your existence with just a few words?”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“All things have a purpose. Not every purpose is good”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“But sometimes we tell ourselves the most beautiful lies just to survive the terrible things that we are living through”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“Asphdoel taught me that the Gods might be eternal but mortals have the very best of stories.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“You forget your place,'
he growled at me.

I should have been afraid,
but his words made me laugh.

'I have never had a place.
What do you think it is
that gives me my courage?'
He turned away from me.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“But sometimes we tell ourselves the most beautiful lies just to survive the terrible things that we are living through.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“she transformed herself into an island, full of birds and trees, a place where no God can go without her permission.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“No wonder this palace never felt
as though it was home.
It was built of guilt and betrayals
so large they could not be forgiven.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch