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Quotes About Disappearance

when he ran out of places to show her, he was sure, she would disappear.
~ Celeste Ng
Up there- eighty-five miles high, ninety, ninety-five, the counter said- everything on earth would be invisible. Mothers who disappeared, fathers who didn't love you, kids who mocked you - everything would shrink to pinpoints and vanish. Up there : nothing but stars.
~ Celeste Ng
everything on earth would be invisible. Mothers who disappeared, fathers who didn't love you, kids who mocked you—everything would shrink to pinpoints and vanish. Up there: nothing but stars.
~ Celeste Ng
chuckle, a loud, insincere whinny that gallops around the room and then vanishes.
~ Celeste Ng
e pegou no diário que a mãe lhe dera no Natal. Até que enfim acontecera algo importante, algo que devia registar. Mas não sabia como explicar o que se passara, como tudo mudara num único dia, como alguém que amava tanto podia estar ali num minuto e, no minuto seguinte ter desaparecido.
~ Celeste Ng
Mary liked to arrange picnics with the kids, and we'd take them to the Willow Grove Amusement Park. I wasn't always running. When they were smaller I used to take them out. I was very close to Peggy, but she doesn't talk to me any more, not since Jimmy disappeared. The
~ Charles Brandt
He melts, I think. He goes like a drop of froth. You look at him, and there he is. You look at him again, and - there he isn't.
~ Charles Dickens
But he's a missing person nobody's going to miss much.
~ Graham McNamee
He turned on the wipers, and used his window wash. When the windscreen cleared, the ears had gone, and so had the pimps.
~ Grant Naylor
Letter 1 To the princess of the elephants, I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year. I will never be more of myself than in these letters. They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.
~ Gregory Colbert
You can take it with you because objects don't just disappear like some people do, intent to remind and to continue breaking, like china cups fragile hearts
~ Gretchen VanOstrand
De los demás maraqueados durante el convivio, nada. Nadita. Humo, fantasmas. Unas decenas más a las listas de los desaparecidos anónimos. Ni una mención a la masacre en el ejido La Providencia. Morirse en Narcolandia representaba un one way ticket a la Dimensión Desconocida.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
All things are forgotten in the end
~ James Hilton
the men who break in and steal by night, who spread self-doubt and fear and acrimony, will eventually fall by the wayside and be unremembered ciphers that disappear like scraps of newspaper in our rearview mirror.
~ James Lee Burke
Was the missing girl reported to the police?" "I think so. All I know is what I was told. And I was told that Helga Schmidt went missing and was never heard from again.
~ James Patterson
The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.
~ Richard Quest
Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.
~ Anthony Liccione
So although only one of them had seen her face, and that just for a second, they let her disappear into the night, which would never release her.
~ Thomas Mullen
Of all the cultures that have disappeared from the world, not a single farewell letter or suicide note has been unearthed.
~ Thorsten J. Pattberg
If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.
~ Caroline Leavitt
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
~ Bob Dylan
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
~ Russell Baker
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
~ Norton Juster