Tom Harper > Quotes

“How much longer?"he asked, trying to be casual.
"For ever, if you keep interrupting.”
― Tom Harper, The Lost Temple

“So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.”
― Tom Harper, The Lost Temple

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell us more about the past than ruined walls and broken pots.”
― Tom Harper, The Lost Temple

“..And what they found was something no one had ever seen before."
"What's that?"
"Well, no one had ever seen it, so it didn't have a name.”
― Tom Harper, The Lost Temple

“If I learned one thing that day, it was that Peter Bartholomew, Arnulf, even Saint John the Divine had all been wrong. The world did not have to end with ten-horned beasts and dragons, angels and fantastical monsters. The prophets who foretold those things had succumbed to the extravagance of their imaginations, and it had played them false. Nothing on earth could be so terrible as men.”
― Tom Harper, Siege of Heaven

“...who knows what happened to the other piece?"
"Actually," said Reed. "I think I can guess."
He looked around the table, pleased with the incredulous reactions he'd drawn.
"What are you, Sherlock Holmes or something?" said Jackson.
"I always preferred to see myself as Mycroft, actually.”
― Tom Harper, The Lost Temple

“apparently there are some holes in it. It’s like an incomplete deck of cards –”
― Tom Harper, The Lost Temple