#persephone

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#persephone #beauty

Have you any idea how hard it is to go nine months out of the year with no sex when you’re married to such a fine piece of male anatomy that he should have been the god of fertility instead of the god of death? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#death

To my fellow Crosses, keep the faith. ↗

— Malorie Blackman

#love #persephone #persephone-hadley #sephy #faith