The Nature of Disappearing Quotes

“THE THING IS to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, HOW CAN A BODY WITHSTAND THIS? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. —Ellen Bass”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

“That’s what friends do. We look out for each other, no matter what. We keep each other safe.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

“Plus I’ve always had a sick desire to bear-spray a dirtbag. I mean, who hasn’t, right?”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

“All of them skated through life making choices that could be swept away and tidied up with incomprehensible ease simply because of who they were.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

“This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little points like those connect-the-dots activities from grade school. Each speck building on the next to form the shape of a person's story.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

“Emlyn shivers in the dark. She keeps on reading. A message from @ozkerwild, last month: I thought we had an understanding. No response from Janessa. Another from two weeks ago: You can’t keep me guessing like this. And finally, from eight days ago. Are we done? Janessa has responded to this final message from @ozkerwild, but her reply makes no sense: 44%N*679,1/114.W?42>17. It could have been a mistake, Emlyn thinks, a phone tossed in a handbag, keys pressed by accident.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing