Athena

“He saw her beauty...but he looked past it. Either that, or he was smart enough to see that she wanted to offer more to the world than a pretty face.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The muscles of my face were beginning to hurt. Under some conditions, smiling is a workout.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Once you kill another human being there is no going back… it’s a bit like being reborn, I suppose. But no ordinary birth—it’s a metamorphosis. What emerges from the ashes is not a phoenix, but an uglier creature: deformed, incapable of flight, a predator using its claws to cut and rip.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens