Great Goddesses Quotes

“Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Maybe that's why you demonised them,
turned them into monsters,

because you think monsters are easier
to understand than women who say no to you.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“You are still the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Does the night ever tire of the darkness? Does the sea ever tire of her own depths? Do the trees ever tire of their roots? Do mortals ever tire of looking for other mortals to call home?”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“I will take [my daughter] to the library, and introduce her to every librarian because they are where Athena lives now.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“And when the burning inside your chest claws, insults you as forgotten, hideous, unloved every single night, you learn how to create iron, then a sword, and challenge those demons to a fight.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“There is something moon-soaked and dawn flavoured about her.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Every love does not have to be made of desire. Some loves are kept for the people who stand by you through everything. Some soulmates are sisters not lovers. Some loves are for those who give you hope. And some for the strength, for wisdom, for dreams.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“If a woman does not fit the shape of what you think a woman should, if a woman is not obedient, does not see things the way you do, if a woman is too independent to need anything more than herself, does she automatically become a threat filled with such terror to you?”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Zeus may have been the God
of lightning and of thunder.

But it was Hera
who invented the rain”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Trauma isn’t going to win today. Remember how Daphne turned into the laurel tree? This is what you must do too. Form your own roots, feed from the earth that still loves you. Remember how.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“You are not made of paper.
If you were, you would have
turned to ash a long time ago.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“She's a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“It is easier to be hated
than to face not being loved
Easier to be angry
than accept sadness”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Did the girl choose magic, or does magic choose the girl?”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“You smell of death.
Everything about you
is an endless goodbye”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and kisses could be shared.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“People give abandonment many names to make themselves feel better. Apollo named his necessary. He called it ‘the lesser of two evils’. Artemis was more brutal. She named hers ‘freedom’.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“The old Gods
may be ash and bone now,
but in us they rise anew.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“seek no homes in other people's chests,”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“She does not have the power to heal as Apollo does, but she does have the capacity to turn them into something that heals itself. Warrior. Hold your monsters close. Turn them into your magic.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“If hate is what made you, how does one replace it with love?”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“There is a difference between holy and pure.

Holy is also the way the anger boils inside our throats”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“There is still love to be found here. It just needs someone to whisper it back to life. This is spell work. It is time-consuming, full of errors . . . . . . but it is not impossible.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“I know how to live with a blade and teach it not to make me bleed”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters