Ⅰ. Januar

"Yet if hope has flown away / In a night, or in a day, / In a vision, or in none, / Is it therefore the less gone? / All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" - A dream within a dream, Edgar Allan Poe.

Evermore by Taylor Swift.

Hades - Tartarus.

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"When at last before my ghostly shipmates I stand, I shed a small tear for my home upon land. Though their eyes speak of depths filled with struggle and strife, their smiles below say I don't owe them my life. As the souls of the dead fill the space of my eyes and my boat listed over and tried to capsize, I'm this far from drowning, this far from the sea, I remember the living do they think of me? When my bones in the ocean forever will be" - Bones in the ocean by The Longest Johns.

Hades - Asphodel.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

Diana, the huntress by Guillaume Seignac.

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"You're not dying, you know. When mom and dad died, I thought I was going to die too. I was sure of it. But then I thought what if I was already dead? But nobody knew and I was walking around dead. But everybody could see and hear me. That was dreadful. It only felt like dying because actually, I was still alive. You have to be to feel that way. I wasn't dead. I was just really, really sad. But then I learned a secret. I didn't even need to be sad anymore." | "What secret?" | "Dead doesn't mean gone."

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

From the original script for City on the Edge of Forever, Star Trek.

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ABIGAIL THORN. ABIGAIL THORN. ABIGAIL THORN. ABIGAIL THORN. ABIGAIL THORN. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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ⅠⅠ. Februar

Dorfromantik.

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"Não compreendem que ele morreu? Ele morreu! Sem Medo morreu! Não compreendem que ele morreu? Sem Medo morreu!". Os homens olharam o vulto do Comandante e viram-lhe o sorriso nos lábios. Sorria à vida ou à morte? "Vamos então embora" disse Muatiânvua. "És tu que dizes para irmos embora?", gritou o Comissário, "Tu, de quem ele gostava tanto? Tu, Muatiânvua? Ninguém vai embora. Vamos enterrá-lo aqui". "É loucura", disse Ekuikui "Não temos pás nem enxadas. Os obuses caem perto. Vamos levá-lo para outro sítio". "Cavemos com os punhais, com as mãos, com o que quiserem. Mas ele será enterrado aqui. Ninguém tem o direito de transportar Sem Medo morto. Onde ele morreu é onde ele fica enterrado. É a única homenagem que lhe podemos prestar". - Mayombe, Pepetela.

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Buell Quain (May 31, 1912 - August 02, 1939), the subject of the book Nove Noites by Bernardo Carvalho.

Hades - Elysium.

Hades - Greece.

Things we lost in the fire by Bastille.

Hades - Family portrait.

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ⅠⅠⅠ. März

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, / by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, / "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, / ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore / tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!" / Quoth the Raven "Nevermore". - The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe.

Maria José and Paulina, La Casa de Las Flores.

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. - Shirley Jackson.

The haunting of Hill House.

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"I loved you completely. And you loved me the same. That's all. The rest is confetti" - Nell Crain in The Haunting of Hill House.

From up on Poppy Hill.

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Ⅳ. April

Drugs by Eden.

Infinity Train.

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"You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you" - Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.

Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir.

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"And it wears me out, all the demons underneath the tide. But I sink like a stone below the weight of all these dreams of mine. And I wish you well, you can't save someone too far to find, but it's wearing me out, and it's stormy in the sea tonight" - Tidal by Noah Kahan.

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Ⅴ. Mai

"You know, Juno... call me a fool if you like, but I think- I may have fallen in love with you" - Peter Nureyev in The Penumbra Podcast.

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"Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examples: Freundschaftsbezeigungen. Dilettantenaufdringlichkeiten. Stadtverordnetenversammlungen. These things are not words, they are alphabetical processions" - The Awful German Language by Mark Twain

Merlin.

Sim Sala Bim by Fleet Foxes.

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous.

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Ⅵ. Juni

"I am home, she thought, and stopped in wonder at the thought. I am home, I am home, she thought; now to climb." ― Shirley Jackson.

Yukito and Touya, CardCaptor Sakura.

Astronomy by Conan Gray.

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"He's not my boyfriend. He's all and he's more." - Joe in The Old Guard.

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Ⅶ. Juli

Genshin Impact.

Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu.

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Ⅷ. August

Wen Kexing from Word of Honor.

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One only knew autumn when the cold rain came; parasol trees dying of old age; the suffering of the cold under a thin blanket; wasting your lifetimes away... all belated regrets, in the end, regrets that we hadn't met sooner. - Faraway wanderers.

We won't be falling by Xueran Chen.

Mo Dao Zu Shi.

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"I'm rich in mountains and rivers of the world, but it's just a pile of damp rocks and wild rivers, nothing special. Out of all I have, the only thing worth anything is probably my sincere heart. Do you want it? Take it." - Zhenhun.

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"All those shameless, vile people of the world get to live, so why... why can’t I...? I have to..." - Faraway Wanderers.

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Ⅸ. September

Guardian (镇魂).

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"‘Will you speak to us of love?’ Almitra asks, like a child. They care nothing of the dying sun, the burnt earth, their inevitable mortality. Tell us a story about love, they say. And give it a happy ending." - Fundamental Imperfection.

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Ⅹ. Oktober

"And I know that I deserve your love. There's nothing I'm not worthy of." - This is me, The Greatest Showman.

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"If someone tells me one more time 'Enjoy your youth,' I'm gonna cry. And I don't stick up for myself. I'm anxious and nothing can help. And I wish I'd done this before. And I wish people liked me more. [...] I feel like no one wants me. And I hate the way I'm perceived. I only have two real friends. And lately, I'm a nervous wreck. 'Cause I love people I don't like. And I hate every song I write. And I'm not cool and I'm not smart..." - Brutal, Olivia Rodrigo.

Ⅺ. November

A troubled mind by Noah Kahan.

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"Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it." - All too well, Taylor Swift.

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Ⅻ. Dezember

"Sometimes I hate it, my lack of patience, how sometimes love feels like a noun in some new foreign language and now my heart is bent and worn so thin. Can you sew the skin? I told you that my whole life could've sworn I would die young. My last words, twenty-two years on my tongue. I'm bad luck, I'm bad luck, I'm bad luck" - Bad luck, Noah Kahan.

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"Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labour is ours, and the zombies it makes are us." ― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism.