"If you think you know us from a few words written by long dead mortals, you're wrong."
--Persephone, Maiden Goddess & Queen of the Dead
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Hades plunged the blade into my gut without compunction. I looked up into his face, my own
twisted in pain, and said, "Thank you." --The Book of Croesus
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
We've Been Expecting You
What if the worlds you thought
existed solely in your imagination were real?
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Would you allow yourself to walk among gods?
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Would you seek answers to questions only
whispered in the back of your mind?
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Would you let your pain and sorrows rise to
the surface to be scraped away?
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Would you have the courage to enter?
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There are beauty, power, and wisdom here, with us, in the dark.
Welcome to the Underworld.
I saw something unexpected in him. I saw love, at first tiny and distant, like the sun. Then he held my hand to steady me and it was huge and up-close; a burning love for all that is.
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--The Book of Lourdes
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Books of Collected Souls: Hades >>
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"Do not mistake my silence for apathy.
I bear witness to your struggle and accompany you to the bottom of the deepest valley where the echo of my silence wraps around you as you surrender your self-inflicted cruelties and eventually open to peace."
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