Styx Quotes

“I'm coming back for you Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear on the river Styx.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“Then that fuckin' nose twitched again. And I sank back into my woman... a pair of wolf eyes bringing me home.”
― Tillie Cole, It Ain't Me, Babe

“From space the little world looked like nothing much - perhaps a pitted and decaying pumpkin, dull orange-black in color, with a handful of tiny orbiting craft floating around it like fruit flies. Here and there amber lights shone out of craters in the surface. What seemed to be scores of deformed silver minnows nibbling the pumpkin rind - together with numbers of smaller noshmates - were actually huge transactinide carriers and lesser starships, either taking on fuel or docked nose-to-ground while their crews rested and recreated inside the not so heavenly body.

I have been told that the original Phlegethon of Greek mythology was a fiery river in Hades. Sheltok Concern owned a dozen or so similar way stations with brimstony names - Gehenna, Styx, Sheol, Tophet, Avernus, Niflheim, and the like - that served vessels bound to or fro the terrible R-class worlds where ultraheavy elements are mined.”
― Julian May, The Sagittarius Whorl