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"How can a flower help us?"
"It's a gift from Gaia, and it has meaning your lady cannot fail to sense. She is a protector of the Earth Mother, and as such she will know her voice."
"What if she doesn't?" Hades asked, not convinced.
"Oh well, I shall hope you're still good at improvising then."

"So Kore is sweet and sensitive. Is it enough to make her your consort?"
"I plan to see it," he said "and her real name is Persephone".
*Badaboom* *Shut the fuck up, Zeus*

"If I tell Demeter to give up the child, she will unleash havoc on earth".
"A good thing my realm happens to be under it, then."
Badass Hades is badass.

"... since Kore is one of my favorites."
Really, Zeus? You should tell her sometimes.

"He was sincerely offended and, even if he was reluctant to admit it, he was hurt.
There was no need to act like he was a beast of the titans. He wasn't a monster.
He wasn't, was he?"
Hades, you adorable thing.

Oh, Demeter, you old cow!

Gods, I love this book.