Vanished Quotes
230 quotes by 195 authors
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It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me - even before I was off…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he’d brought into my…
— Karen Chance
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All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history…
— Erin Hunter
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Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation,…
— Bill Bryson
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That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
— Robert Frost
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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with…
— Lorrie Moore
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His black eyes sliced into me, and the corners of his mouth tilted up. My heart fumbled a bit and in that pause, a feeling…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.
— Jennifer Egan
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You killed my Dad." Any trace of kindness or sympathy vanished from Rixon's eyes. "Well this is awkward.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor nurse.…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the…
— Mark Strand
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She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues…
— William Gibson
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What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes…
— James Hilton
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a…
— Emile Zola
Who Wrote These Vanished Quotes
195 authors contributed a total of 230 Vanished Quotes, led by these top contributors: