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

“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

“I was starting to feel as though my entire existence was a threat. Perhaps this was what womanhood was.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Perhaps this was what womanhood was. The dangerous knowledge of who you are and what you could do with that power if pushed.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate: The Witch

“Everyone assumed that to protect children, they must be kept in the dark – no one understood those secrets haunted the same children they were so ardently trying to protect.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“A woman they cannot control, whether Goddess or mortal, is a dangerous woman”
― 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

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

“Perhaps this is what womanhood was. The dangerous knowledge of who you are and what you could do with that power if pushed”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“Has someone ever changed your existence with just a few words?”
― 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

“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

“It seemed to me that anything unpredictable was named dangerous by Gods and men alike. But the word ‘unpredictable’ seemed reserved for women alone.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate: The Witch

“Everything seemed so much more finite
when you were mortal.
Everything ached more, hurt more.
If you are doomed from the start
you learn to savor every drop of life
in ways immortals never can.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“No one teaches you how to prepare when you are a child of war. One day your mother is with you. The next she is gone. We do not get safety and stability. Both are snatched at the whims of men and Gods.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate: The Witch

“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

“It is obscene how often
the cruelest things can happen
in the most beautiful places.”
― Nikita Gill, Hekate - The Witch

“I was starting to feel as if my entire existence was a threat. Perhaps this is what womanhood was. The dangerous knowledge of who you are and what you could do with that power if pushed.”
― 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