Top 35 Cate Tiernan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty.”

— Cate Tiernan

2. “There are no coincidences. And everything means something.”

— Cate Tiernan

3. “Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.”

— Cate Tiernan

4. “Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.”

— Cate Tiernan

5. “Could he actually be my muirn beatha dan?”

— Cate Tiernan

6. “No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different...”

— Cate Tiernan

7. “It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking – talking about how to protect her, actually – and then, suddenly, I looked at her and it was as if I’d found an entire universe in her eyes.”

— Cate Tiernan

8. “There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”

— Cate Tiernan

9. “At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty.”

— Cate Tiernan

10. “Years from now I’ll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I’ll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.”

— Cate Tiernan

11. “Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.”

— Cate Tiernan

12. “A woman’s face, naked and unadorned, is as beautiful as the moon, and as mysterious.”

— Cate Tiernan

13. “Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?”

— Cate Tiernan

14. “I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls.”

— Cate Tiernan

15. “Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.”

— Cate Tiernan

16. “I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff” school of thought.”

— Cate Tiernan

17. “Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess’s magick...”

— Cate Tiernan

18. “The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.”

— Cate Tiernan

19. “I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in.”

— Cate Tiernan

20. “In fairy tales there’s always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn’t imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn’t right for him?”

— Cate Tiernan

21. “You’re not honey. Your’e wine. You’re the deepest, darkest shadow under a tree on a blazing day. You’re strong and hard, coursing like a current at the bottom of a river.”

— Cate Tiernan

22. “I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River’s Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.”

— Cate Tiernan

23. “Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”

— Cate Tiernan

24. “I don’t love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I’ve ever known.”

— Cate Tiernan

25. “Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn’t going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it.”

— Cate Tiernan

26. “Heritage does not equal destiny.”

— Cate Tiernan

27. “Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.”

— Cate Tiernan

28. “The more you learn, the more you need to learn. That’s what life is.”

— Cate Tiernan

29. “Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.”

— Cate Tiernan

30. “The more you know, the more you know.”

— Cate Tiernan

31. “But that’s how Wicca was: ancient and gently permeating many facets of people’s lives without their being aware of it.”

— Cate Tiernan

32. “It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people – he could present them with what they wanted to see. And what made it so powerful was that at some level, it was real.”

— Cate Tiernan

33. “What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”

— Cate Tiernan

34. “I’d once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”

— Cate Tiernan

35. “My face is not that expressive!”

— Cate Tiernan

36. “I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.”

— Cate Tiernan

37. “But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.”

— Cate Tiernan