{"quotes":[{"text":"It matters to ourselves, of course, but it matters terribly to other people. Moral failure or spiritual failure or whatever you call it, makes such a vicious circle... It seems as if when we love people and they fall short, we retaliate by falling shorter ourselves. Children are like that. Adults have a fearful responsibility. When they fail to live up to what children expect of them, the children give up themselves. So each generation keeps failing the next.","author":"Dorothy Whipple","tags":["parenting","persephone","truth"],"id":95235,"author_id":"Dorothy+Whipple"},{"text":"Husband, we talked about this,' Persephone chided. 'You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that.'Hades rolled his eyes. 'You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["hades","percy-jackson","persephone"],"id":96932,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"Hades smiled coldly. 'Hello, Father. You're looking...Young.'Hades,' Kronos growled. 'I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegi.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["demeter","hades","nico-diangelo","percy-jackson","persephone"],"id":100529,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"Persephone had it right.If you must go, might as welltake all of spring with you—.","author":"Cathy Linh Che","tags":["persephone","poem","poetry","spring"],"id":134121,"author_id":"Cathy+Linh+Che"},{"text":"Enjoying your Christmas in the land of the dead? Fun and different, right?","author":"Molly Ringle","tags":["christmas","fun","hades","persephone","underworld"],"id":149367,"author_id":"Molly+Ringle"},{"text":"His gaze hits mine with the force of a battering ram. He looks… appalled. “I-I won’t do this. I can’t… be with you.","author":"Amanda Bouchet","tags":["cerberus","epic-fantasy","gods","greek-mythology","hades","persephone","poseidon","snakes","spiders"],"id":153331,"author_id":"Amanda+Bouchet"},{"text":"Charm me into giving you the red M\u0026Ms. They’re my favorite.'I looked Hades in the eyes. 'Give me the red M\u0026Ms.''Still not good enough.''Give me the damn M\u0026Ms,''I snapped.He snickered. 'That wasn’t very charming.","author":"Kaitlin Bevis","tags":["charm","hades","m-ms","mythology","persephone"],"id":165984,"author_id":"Kaitlin+Bevis"},{"text":"I don’t know why it’s not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.","author":"Amanda Bouchet","tags":["action-packed","cerberus","epic-fantasy","greek-gods","greek-mythology","hades","magic","oracle","persephone","poseidon","snakes","spiders","wizard","zeus"],"id":174571,"author_id":"Amanda+Bouchet"},{"text":"Queer, how her own desperate need of light seemed to throw such brilliance over the affairs of the members of her family. She carried her need like a many-batteried pocket spotlight, illuminating emotional corners in other people, but she walked in darkness behind it. Her wrist wouldn't bend to turn it on herself.","author":"Helen R. Hull","tags":["light","persephone"],"id":180135,"author_id":"Helen+R.+Hull"},{"text":"Lost in Hell,-Persephone,Take her head upon your knee;Say to her, 'My dear, my dear,It is not so dreadful here.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["hell","persephone"],"id":195286,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}