Lyrebird Quotes

“Sometimes you see everything so clearly and other times you can’t even see yourself, but then, isn’t that all of us?”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“Why can’t people just be really good at something? Why do they have to be the best at something?”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn’t like it. She thought she was a better person than this.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“People’s name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“They’re seeing each other for the first time, two complete strangers, unable to take their eyes off each other. It is the moment his life splits; who he was before he met her and who becomes after.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“I’ve come a long way. But I’ve a distance to go. My dream? My dream is to soar happily into my future.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“Maybe it’s wrong to deprive people of that experience, this experience of you I’m, having. Maybe I didn’t want to share you.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“It’s not his job to mind her, or is it? Perhaps that’s a job he’s given himself, placing himself in a position of importance for his own ego.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“How can a place be a home if no one wants you there? This is not a home.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“She also wants the freedom to be able to act as she deems appropriate, without fearing or dreading the feedback, the sensing the disapproval and disappointment. Of always letting him down. Of having to check herself. She doesn’t want any more cold air between them, but mostly she doesn’t like to have to second-guess herself at a job that she knows she’s more than capable of doing.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“I’m in competition with myself. Always have been. It’s up to me to be as good as I can be.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“She longs for him to be here, but knows it was she who walked away from him. It’s her fault he’s not here.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“What is she doing in this world? Where is she going? She knows she has so much further to go than the distance she has come.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“Will you be all right, Joe?’ Bo asks, gently, her concern genuine.
‘I’ll have to be, won’t I?”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“I didn’t know what else to do. I don’t have anywhere else to go, I can’t go back. I’m trying to move forward all the time but I’m grasping at everything and can’t catch on to anything.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“Lyrebird has a lot of supporters but she has a lot of critics. She will and should prove them wrong.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“This is life brother, there’s no harm, or shame in admitting something’s not working. Get out now while you can. I don’t know what you’re hanging on for.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“What has she done, what has she done? She’s cut herself off from people she truly needs. Yet despite the fear of what she’s done, she knows it’s the right thing. The atmosphere in the apartment was toxic. She had to get away from them, and wasn’t it him who was slowly cutting himself off from her?”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“Why don’t you run away and leave everybody else to clean up the mess? Then you can get on your high horse as usual and blame everybody but yourself.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“This is me, trying to make a choice, to make something for myself in the only way that I know how.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“She’s had no one to share these thoughts with, no one but herself, and she’s driving herself crazy.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“He’s losing himself, he doesn’t like what he’s becoming. It’s not him. Not who he wants to be.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“Who ever needs to know what people say about them behind their backs?”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“Maybe it’s wrong to deprive people of that experience, this experience of you I’m having. Maybe I didn’t want to share you.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird

“Her definition of cheating and his was always different.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Lyrebird