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Quotes About Disappearance

That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with nothing. By running away at least she would have the joy of knowing she was missed.
~ Simon Van Booy
In each word, not words but the space that, appearing, disappearing, they designate as the moving space of their appearance and their disappearance. In each word, a response to the unexpressed, the refusal and attraction of the unexpressed.
~ Maurice Blanchot
The burning beast suddenly vanished in a puff of smoke.
~ Max Brooks
The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Exit our Miss Mel. Exit Friend Tim. When I glanced over my shoulder, Max Friedlander had disappeared—a remarkable feat, considering that there was nowhere on that side of the hole for him to go except into the Chronicle building. But he can't have gone in there. His soul would have been ripped instantly from his body while demons sucked out his life force.
~ Meg Cabot
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Harper was well aware of how pretty white women enchanted society. Girls with brown skin like hers disappeared every day and people on the internet barely batted an eye.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Our act of reading, together with our reflections on its methods, therefore parallels the phenomenon's act of disappearing. What we are given to read are always the traces of a specific act of withdrawal.
~ Beatrice Hanssen
Does that girl work here?' Robbie asked, gesturing at the screen behind which Mary had disappeared. 'All her life,' Sir Giles said. 'You remember Mary, Thomas?' 'I tried to drown her when we were both children,' Thomas said.
~ Bernard Cornwell
A few societies have perished from
~ Bertrand Russell
I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.
~ Ehud Barak
My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.
~ Arnon Goldfinger
In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.
~ Hisham Matar
Already his features had dimmed a little in my mind. It terrified me, this slow disappearing.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
He stared; there was something wrong. The great wooden doors had vanished. The grey wall stretched blank, its massive square stones quite featureless except for one round golden shield, alone, hanging high up and glinting dully in the light from the fire.
~ Susan Cooper
And all the nursemaids and kitchen maids I ever knew when I was a child, always had a aunt, who knew a woman, whose first cousin's boy had been put into just such a box, and had never been seen again.
~ Susanna Clarke
Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.
~ Jostein Gaarder
Se tomaron todos los cunchos que había en la casa», dijo Mallarino.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Sophia, sandals off, was standing at the water's edge. -Disappearing Earth
~ Julia Phillips
Victor's beast leaned toward me and licked my cheek once more—a goodbye kiss. I smelled the warm fur and musk scent that was at once and entirely Victor and saw the moonlight reflected in his scarlet eyes. Then he rushed away into the underbrush, nearly silent despite his huge bulk, and disappeared.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Por su parte, él se habría esfumado junto con ella sin dudarlo.
~ Florencia Bonelli
How does it feel," whispered Faith, "to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place? I would feel as if I were disappearing. I would wonder if my father wanted to remember me at all. Do you ever have nightmares where you wake up and find that there is nothing of you left, just a dead person sitting up and wearing somebody else's face?" She saw Paul flinch. She had touched a nerve, and that knowledge made her fiercely happy.
~ Frances Hardinge
People who are clinically depressed have their own disturbances with food. For some, it's as if hand to mouth were an involuntary reflex, as if food could fill the abyss. Which it can't, and they grow fat, which does nothing good for their state of mind. The others are rarely hungry or else they are never hungry. They emaciate, become insubstantial, a manifestation of the wish to disappear. Bunny is one of the thin ones.
~ Binnie Kirshenbaum
I assume I disappeared on my round-the-world flight?" "Yes," Ivar said. Earhart gave a sad smile. "I think I disappeared in every timeline. Would have been nice to know I made it in one of them. That event seems to be a constant, except for those where civilization didn't survive long enough to invent the airplane." She shook her head. "A different timeline is a different world, even though it's still Earth.
~ Bob Mayer