The Vanishing Act Quotes

“It is in the heart and not in the words - not even in the most beautiful ones - but in the heart, in the skeleton bird pushing against your chest, wanting to fly, that we know for certain who and what we love. That is all we have, and all there is.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“It's important to daydream... It's important to let your mind travel.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“His eyes looked sad, like the ocean before a big storm.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“We could build a boat, you and I, and sail to the moon and back.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“You make magic,' he exclaimed, 'without even trying'.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“Uncle nodded, still looking pale, and then told me that he used to be scared of ghosts.

"Aren't you scared anymore?" I asked.

"I started looking straight at them," he said. "Then they stopped coming so close.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“I imagined the goat looking at the world from the church tower; at the ocean, the horizon and maybe the sunrise. I imagined how it might have thought today is the day and leapt, waving its little hooves around.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“...most people do not separate God from expectation.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“... she spoke about stars, endlessness, and the rapture of the night...”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“Imagine, little one. A kind and gentle man waving to me, almost as if he had been waiting for me to arrive.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“A gentleman never ignores a gate.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“– Néha – magyarázta Ládás – a szomorúságnak van valami édes, elbűvölő mellékíze. Belemar a szívedbe, és még többet kívánsz belőle.”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“I told Papa of whole cities under water, streets filled with drifting seaweed and glittering fish”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act

“... I thought that maybe he could see the universe in the snow...”
― Mette Jakobsen, The Vanishing Act