Mythos Quotes

“The boy, on the other hand, was a menace, in his father’s eyes. He could DO THINGS, as he’d overheard it being described to his mother. He was dangerous. He had made a lightning bolt appear, for goodness’ sake, like he was Thor himself. If he could do that, what more was he capable of?”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“The trouble was that Itzy had what her mother had always called an ‘overactive imagination’. Even if she wanted to stop the stories from coming, she wasn’t sure it was possible. She couldn’t stop the flood of images that so often inundated her mind.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“But the monsters weren’t in her room – they were in the room down the hall, and they all had a name: Stephen Loveguard.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“Drinking had become Myra's staple answer to all of life’s problems. Sometimes it felt like alcohol had replaced Stephen as Itzy’s second parent.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“She once had an idea that perhaps if she dreamt of him enough, or wrote about him enough times, he would leave her system.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“After class, it was Ash who had initiated things. He had a radiant smile that spoke to her heart in a way no one ever had, and she thought, This must be what love feels like.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“The dream followed him into the next night, and the next, and every night thereafter, never letting him go. Suddenly, he was breaking every rule he had ever set himself and becoming something he was not: a thief. He stole into the garage and slipped into the car so easily, it was like it had been waiting for him to take it away. In fact, everything about his escape had been easy, like he had been wrapped in a protective bubble by whatever it was that wanted him to go.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“I’m so sorry,’ Ash said, and for a moment she was unsure whether he was sorry for her or for what they had just almost shared.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“Crop circle exploration clearly wasn’t the tourist attraction she’d assumed it would be.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos

“She swam through the atmosphere, catching glimpses of her friends just out of the corner of her eye, but not caring. She was beyond them now. She was beyond everything.”
― Vrinda Pendred, Mythos