Venetta Octavia > Quotes

“I can be feminine in all my rage.
I can be girl and woman, and claws with teeth.
Watch me burn.”
― Venetta Octavia

“I will be girl with claws, heart bared and bruised and wanting. I am soul-shattering wolf-howl. I am lioness and hunt. I am more and enough. I am.”
― Venetta Octavia, Prelude to Light

“So often the night comes and we think ourselves one with it. All darkness. All memory. Tonight, I am not ghost / shadow / dream. I am arrow / medea / sword. I am mist & fog; light passes through me & all around me. I am porous & become the light. I am the light. I am the light—”
― Venetta Octavia, Prelude to Light

“You are shaking fists & trembling teeth. I know: You did not mean to be cruel. That does not mean you were kind.”
― Venetta Octavia

“Big Bang, Shooting Star, Blazing Fire If this is darkness, then I will be the light. I will be the crashing supernova. If this is darkness, I will howl at it until the moon awakens. Until the stars roar back. Until the sun and the seas and everything in between scream to burn the skeletons away. I know there is ugliness hiding within the light. I know the monsters beneath my bed won’t disappear with the dawn. But it is enough to see them, wretched little beasts, to look them straight in the eyes and say, I will not run from my sins. I am more than my ghosts. I am better than the dark parts of me.”
― Venetta Octavia, Prelude to Light

“I understand now—perhaps the trick is not to walk towards a miracle, maybe it’s to look at what you have. to realise every blade of grass, every molecule of air, every tree, every river, is its own miracle.”
― Venetta Octavia, Prelude to Light

“I can be feminine in all my rage. I can be girl and woman, and claws with teeth. Watch me burn.”
― Venetta Octavia