Harp and the Lyre Quotes

“She didn’t turn back. She knew his eyes were still on her, but she wouldn’t allow herself to look back. One more look at him and…
That would do it.
That would reverse everything.
That would change her mind.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Clarity could sometimes be a harsh creature.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“It was as if the foundations of his very being had collapsed — his feet had led him to disaster, his inner compass had smashed to pieces, and his soul felt broken.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Are these the birthing days of the end? Or are they perhaps the birth of a new beginning?”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“He had convinced himself of a ‘truth’, mostly because it was a very welcome sight for sore eyes. To see something meant that it was probable, and to consider something probable meant that it was believable.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“He was becoming distanced from expectation, feelings, and fallible things. Fallible beings, to be clear.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Your guide to the nightmare land
Of tricks and lies and nightmare plans;
Your guide to the nightmare land
Of all those nightmare dreams of man.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“I don’t really understand it myself: half the time I think I must be crazy for liking him and sometimes I can’t even remember how I fell for him. But, then again, isn’t that what love is? — one big bubble of confusion, joy, chaos, happiness, mess, harmony, ugliness, beauty, madness, balance, disagreements, unity, challenges, ease, pain, healing, rejection, acceptance, death and life; all these things, all the time, and all-consuming.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“What never failed to amaze him was how girls could come up with thousands of questions in under a minute.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Yes, our world is like a living being, wouldn’t you agree? Rishona has good days and bad days — mood swings, if you like: random outbursts, tears of joy, laughter and sorrow — all those delightful things that we experience.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Only with a universal banding together can we bandage up our world and start the healing process.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Commitment couldn’t compete with Freedom.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“I’d like to know vere hope dvells zese days ’cause it certainly doesn’t seem to dvell anyvere on Rishona.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Butterflies flew around her stomach, and her heart began reaching breaking point. Love knew no boundaries; her strong affection for him went beyond the lowest depths of the seas and higher than the skies above.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“He was going places, but those were places that she didn’t want to go.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“…he was already out of sight. He was not out of her mind though, nor would he ever be.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“She recalled all the seesaws she had ridden: friendship and love, jealousy and trust, confusion and sense, happiness and sadness, disappointment and contentment, hope and despair, pain and comfort, temptation and self-control.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“...only one thought passed through his mind: “Did I make my parents proud?”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be okay…but I’ll be.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Everything has a hidden meaning.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Who cared about manners when their whole life was falling apart?”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“You may work for Lyre but you’re the worst liar I know.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“What I do know is that the truth can hurt; truth can be confronting; truth doesn’t change; and no lie will ever come from the truth.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“The mysteries of life are few and far between; we learn from the unknown, we wait for the unseen.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“He made a resolution to pursue the requiting love of Education herself. No one was more desirable than her; no one could match her impressive looks or intelligence.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Right is the new wrong; good is the new bad.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“What felt like love for the boy also felt a lot like frustration, and her happiness about being his girlfriend was already tinged with bitterness. Was it worth riding the twists and turns of their emotional rollercoaster, especially when she had no idea where it was really going?”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“I should have held my tongue; I should have succumbed to the fact that facts were not facts anymore; I should have accepted the truth that truths were no longer considered true; I should have stayed silent.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Jealousy was a brutal player in the game of love and it often brought on brutal actions from those whom it teamed up with.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Music isn’t about perfection.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction