Girl of Myth and Legend Quotes

“She smiles. ‘I like black because it reminds me of night. You can only see all the stars when the sky’s black.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“I put my head on his shoulder
‘Wh-what are you doing?’ he yells, shoving me away from him with wide eyes.
‘I was giving you a hug!’ I say.
‘Y-you-!’
‘Pff. D’you really think I’d do that? I’m trying to keep warm, idiot. You’re like my overgrown Furby.’
‘I’m in a human form, not my kytaen!’
‘Tomayto, tomahto.’ I come close to him.
He pushes me away. ‘You shouldn’t be doing that!’
‘What’s the problem? You said you’re my tool, right? Well, I’m cold, tool of mine, so why don’t you calm the hell down and give me some of that sweet, sweet warmth?’
‘Don’t touch me!’
‘I’m starting to think you’re self-conscious in this form. You let me cuddle you in your other-‘
‘We did not cuddle!’ he shouts.
I manage a grin. ‘Would you prefer I use a different word? Snuggle, maybe?”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“No. You see, the night works differently here than in the human realm,’ he continues. ‘Duwyn is a world of balance. Good and bad, light and dark – both must exist to keep the world in harmony.’
Oh God, he’s going to give me a Pocahontas speech.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“How to explain this? A shadow kytaen becomes, in a way, the shadow of their keeper, and when the keeper chooses it to, the shadow will detach itself like It did just then.’
‘What, like Peter Pan?”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“You’re not like any other keeper I’ve met before. I’ve seen you two together, and more than anything I see you treat him as a friend. You look at him as an equal. Him… he looks at you with hope, and even more than that. I know that whatever bond you share with each other, it’s something real and powerful.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“Oh, God.’
‘What?’ he says.
‘Ew.’
‘What’
‘Your leg. It looks dismembered. I swear there’s bone coming out of it. So gross.’
‘… Couldn’t you at lease have phrased that more delicately?”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“I’ve had enough of this destiny bullshit, OK?”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“I-I know you think me a monster, and maybe I am, b-but please never doubt how much I believed in you. Everything I did was for you. Yes, I did it all for you! I would live and die for you. Over and over if I had to. I was never your enemy.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“But maybe that’s why you’re the last one, maybe that’s why the stargods decided to bring you into our world, because you’re not indifferent and you’re not mindless. You’re someone who can’t be crushed or tainted. Or at least, you’re not someone who will be easily. Maybe in these times, it’s not water we need, but fire. Maybe that’s why we’re together. Fire on fire, as you said.’
I blink, confused. ‘Are you… wait, are you being… nice to me?”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“You’re overly hostile, and that’s not a good thing. Pulsar, especially, are very controlled in their emotions.’
‘So I’ve been told,’ I mutter.
‘They’re like water: elegant, neutral in all feeling. You, though, you’re like fire: blazing, belligerent, existing on all feelings – so unsuited to being a Pulsar.’
‘Maybe that’s why we clash so much, you and me, because we’re fire on fire.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“I look at Pegasus. ‘I’d rather be bound to you, boy. Bet you don’t have any problems besides where to take your morning dump.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“Hearing those words, I instinctively turn to my new keeper, regretting it, because for only the third time in my entire existence, tears are streaming down my cheeks.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“I don’t know her memories, I don’t know her thoughts, but it’s as if I can peek into her heart and know her, just as she will know me. If she were to turn from me now, I would not bear it. I need her. Without her I cannot exist, because I am no longer an independent entity. I am hers, body and soul, just as it is with every soul-binding. She is my light, she is my air, she is the heart, the soul, the essence – she is home. I may not want to feel this way but the binding has entwined us in an unshakable bond that no being can tear apart.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“She is magnificent. I cannot deny it.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“Ae’anad’, he says.
‘What did you just call me?’
He’s silent.
‘Tell me. I command you,’ I say.
‘Now you’re discovering the ways of a keeper. Well, I’ll comply once, little lion.’
I blink. ‘Please don’t tell me you’re giving me a cute nickname?’
‘Cute, you? Impossible. And “little lion” isn’t a cute nickname, either. You’re a ferocious animal who happens to be small.’
I glare. ‘I don’t like it.’
‘That makes it all the better.’ He whacks my copper curls. ‘These, for example, are like a lion’s mane.’
‘Hmph.’
‘I don’t know why I didn’t come up with this before. You really are a little lion.’
And soon, Korren, very soon, I will be your keeper.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“Contrary to what you may think, when O’Sah told me about kytaen, that I’d be meeting one, I didn’t picture a pet or a lackey to follow me. I didn’t think of a prisoner. I… I pictured an ally, a friend, OK?”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“My head snaps in her direction. ‘Stop that,’ I say, standing in place.
‘Stop what?’ she asks.
‘With this thing, this niceness.’
‘What d-you-?’
‘I’m kytaen, a tool. You’re Chosen. We’re not friends. That kind of word doesn’t exist between our two species. Treat me how you’re supposed to and stop this… act.’
A moment passes, and then she says, ‘I see. So there’s going to be no civility between us, eh?’
‘I’m glad you finally understand.’
‘I didn’t exactly overlook your unsubtle hostility towards me.’
‘Then why bother being nice?’
‘I was raised to be polite to elderly people.’
‘Then you should know I’m not old. I’m immortal.’
‘Quit bragging’
I blink. ‘I wasn’t bragging, I was stating a fact.’
‘It sounded like bragging to me.’
‘It wasn’t.’
‘It sounded like it.’
‘Well it wasn’t.’
‘Old men do tend to brag after all.’
‘I wasn’t bragging!’
She gives me an impish grin. ‘They also lose their temper easily.'
I grit my teeth.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“They then praise me for traits I don’t think I even have. Amiable presence? Hah! Lady of legends? OK, that sounds pretty cool. But righteous? Honourable? Composed? Did they just grab a dictionary and choose a bunch of positive words? And calling me polite, the girl who talks with her mouth full, the girl who speaks her mind at the worst moments, the girl who has no intention of hiding when she’s bored, annoyed or offended in order to respect the other person? Well, they’ll soon realise that polite was far from the truth. I’m not exactly impolite towards them, but I hate phoneys, and I have being phoney, too. Somehow, though, my upfront comments only spawn more of these exaggerated compliments: ‘What a sincere girl!’ and ‘We need a Pulsar of such boldness.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“O’Sah explained to me that there are four categories of Chosen, each more powerful than the last. First are Zeros, Chosen who possess barely any magic. Second are Phobien, Chosen who have a reasonable amount of magic. Then, there are Thrones, considered powerful and holding many influential positions across Duwyn. And last, the Pulsar, the strongest of Chosen, revered as almost god-like beings.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“You are not just any Chosen, my Lady," he says, and he meets my gaze with unflinching intensity. "The reason why your awakening of magic was so great, the reason why your eyes are red and no one else’s are… you are the heir to an ageless legacy, the heir of a slaughtered race. You are the last Pulsar, and we have been waiting for you for two hundred years.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“The Imperium made a solemn vow that if another Pulsar were to be born into our world," he continues, "that they would protect them at all costs in the hopes that a legend would arise again.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“Oh, right. I doubt this place has any delicious, fattening fast-food places, and maybe the Imperium doesn’t either. Yup, no McDonald’s, no Burger King, no Gino’s Pizza… Dear God, have I made a mistake coming here? I may be of small stature, but make no mistake: I am a glutton. On the other hand – possible franchise opportunity.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“I don’t have a choice. A kytaen comes at me, all teeth and claws, and instinct takes over. The magic that has been dormant for so long explodes out of me, and I become the beast I truly am. And with fire and fury and the will to survive, I pounce.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“Oh! I see it!’ I say. ‘I’m sitting, yes, I’m definitely sitting down on a chair with, let’s see, with my dad in front of me, who’s suddenly developed symptoms of Nutcase Syndrome, and… oh wait, that’s the here and now.’ I’m about to push his hands away from me. ‘I’m starting to think it’s you who needs to go to the hos-”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“It’s probable that doctors would tell me indulging Dad’s delusions is not advisable, but what the hell.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“Wow. Another realm, huh? Your zealous delusions continue to impress me. Is this where we fly off to Olympus or Valhalla or Heaven or something?”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“You and I are not like normal humans. We’re known as the Chosen and possess, how should I say it? We possess abilities that would be thought impossible. Think of, I don’t know, think of shape-shifters, illusionists, seers – like me.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“OK. How to start? All right. I’m going to be very blunt, so here it goes,’ he says. ‘I can see the future.’

'Um. Yeah. Sure you can, Dad,’ I say.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend

“What are you? Who are you? I have never met a Chosen like you in my entire existence. You are everything that is free. You are freedom. And I... I'm the bird trapped in the cage, watching you fly away. But then, you look back at me, you always look back, and you reach through the bars and offer your hand to me. Though I am nothing, though I am just a heartless creature, you still offer me your hand. But I won't take it. I won't because... what will happen to us if I do?

It doesn't matter. None of it matters. Because you were kind to me, you made me laugh - that isn't something I will forget easily, and I will repay you.”
― Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend